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William Blackstone: It is better...

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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Source: Commentaries on the Laws of England, vol. 4, ch. 27, 1765-69.
-- William Blackstone, (Jul 10 1723-1780), English jurist; He was the author of Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vol., 1765-69, the best known description of the doctrines of English law.


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