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?1605 True Relation Wonderfull Mercies sig. B2 They brought him before the Magistrates, who after his examination, he still denying the fact, was committed to prison, put vpon the Racke, and grieuously tormented... Afterward, being brought to the publike place of tryall, [etc.].

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 167 He was taken in the night time in his Lodging by one Norton, who..conducting him to a Magistrate, was after examination, committed close Prisoner to the Compter in London.

1794 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XXXIX. App. 429 The proprietor of the house..on being carried before the proper Magistrate for examination, refused to give any account of these weapons.

1828 Q. Rev. Jan. 164 Previous to this statute, the magistrates, on the preliminary examination, had no power of hearing any evidence for the prisoner.

1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 234/2 The party is brought before a magistrate for examination.

1903 J. A. James & A. H. Sanford Our Govt. iii. xxv. 232 An accused person is given a preliminary examination before a local justice to determine whether he shall be held for trial.

1986 R. Thompson Sex in Middlesex (1989) 7 Since magistrates combined this inquisitorial role with the judicial, the examination might often act as the real trial when the examining magistrate decided in his own mind on the guilt or innocence of the accused.

2004 G. R. Hartman et al. Landmark Supreme Court Cases 186 He was not told of his right to counsel or to a preliminary examination before a magistrate.