"Public prosecutor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... you see him, please tell him that we begin with the poisoning case." Breve was the public prosecutor, who was to read the indictment in ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy
... we would reckon magistrates, holding office during pleasure or for life, and obliged to remain at the Palace for the greater portion of the day; other functionaries sometimes find means to leave their office at business hours; but a judge or a public prosecutor, seated on his cushion of lilies, is bound even to die during the progress of the hearing. There ...
— The Physiology of Marriage, Part I. • Honore de Balzac
... 'Aut sint ut sunt,' and I make it, 'Aut non erunt.' They tell me you are a Liberal Catholic. That simply means that you are not a Catholic. But let us proceed. Your enemies have denounced you to the Public Prosecutor, and it would be our duty to send the carabinieri to arrest Signor Pietro Maironi, condemned, in his absence, by the Assize Court at Brescia, for having failed to serve on a jury when summoned. But that is a slight matter. You imagine you healed some people at Jenne, and you are accused not only ...
— The Saint • Antonio Fogazzaro
... had been appointed since Mr. Jacob De Villiers had been taken prisoner at Bothaville; but the Council appointed Mr. Hendrik Potgieter, Landdrost of Kroonstad, as Public Prosecutor. ...
— Three Years' War • Christiaan Rudolf de Wet
... wearing a bag and sword. Pitt had refused to be one of the conductors of the impeachment; and his commanding, copious, and sonorous eloquence was wanting to that great muster of various talents. Age and blindness had unfitted Lord North for the duties of a public prosecutor; and his friends were left without the help of his excellent sense, his tact and his urbanity. But in spite of the absence of these two distinguished members of the Lower House, the box in which the managers stood contained an array of speakers such as perhaps had not appeared together since the ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
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