[28] When they have got him, they are to be allowed to torture him, or maltreat him, or extort money from him. Yet the next ensuing statute directly and distinctly forbids such treatment even of men convicted and proved to be murderers. Read to the jury the statute that follows.
Statute.
It shall be lawful to kill
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murderers in our own territory, or to arrest them as directed on the first turning-table,
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but not to maltreat or amerce them, on penalty of a payment of twice the damage inflicted. The Archons, according to their several jurisdictions, shall bring cases into court; for any man who so desires and the court of Heliaea shall adjudicate.
Against Aristocrates. Demosthenes. James Herbert Vince (Translator). London. 1935.
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