If one fled after having been convicted at a court and again comes up before the same court, the [first] judgment is not set aside. Wherever two witnesses stand up and declare, `we testify that n. N. was tried and convicted at the court of x and that y and z were the witnesses in the case,` the accused is executed. A Sanhedrin has jurisdiction within the land [of Palestine] and outside it. A Sanhedrin that effects an execution once in seven years, is branded a destructive tribunal; R. Eliezer b. Azariah says: once in seventy years. R. Tarfon and R. Akiba say: were we members of a Sanhedrin, no person would ever be put to death.[Thereupon] Rabban Simeon b. Gamaliel remarked, [yea] and they would also multiply shedders of blood in Israel |
מכות 1.10 |
The following go into banishment: He who slays in error. If [for instance] while he was pushing a roller [on the roof] it [slipped over] fell down and killed somebody, or while he was lowering a cask it fell down and killed somebody, or, while coming down a ladder he fell on somebody and killed him, he goes into banishment. But, if while he was pulling up the roller it fell back on someone killing him, or while he was raising a bucket the rope snapped and the bucket killed somebody in its fall, or while going up a ladder he fell down and killed somebody, he does not go into banishment. This is the general principle: whenever the death was caused in the course of a downward movement, he goes into banishment, but if it is caused not in the course of a downward movement, he does not go into banishment.If the iron slipped from its helve and killed [somebody], Rabbi says he does not go into banishment and the Sages say he goes into banishment; if from the split log, Rabbi says he goes into banishment, and the Sages say he does not go into banishment |
מכות 2.1 |
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