Halakhah for Sanhedrin 3:5
עיבור החדש בשלשה עיבור השנה בשלשה דברי ר"מ רבן שמעון בן גמליאל אומר בשלשה מתחילין ובחמשה נושאין ונותנין וגומרין בשבעה ואם גמרו בג' מעוברת:
HOLD THAT A CASE OF LIBEL REQUIRES A COURT OF TWENTY-THREE SINCE IT MAY INVOLVE A CAPITAL CHARGE.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For if the woman is proved guilty she is stoned. ');"><sup>9</sup></span> CASES INVOLVING FLOGGING,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut.XXV, 2-3. ');"><sup>10</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
This commandment is practiced at the time of the [Temple] when Israel are in their inhabitation; since [only] then is it in our hand to judge capital cases. And they, may their memory be blessed, said (Sanhedrin 2a) that we only judge a false prophet with a court of seventy-one [judges].
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