The New System of Criminal Procedure, Pleading and Evidence in Indictable Cases, as Founded on Lord Campbell's Act, 14 and 15 Vict. C. 100, and Other Recent Statutes: With New Forms of Indictments and Evidence (Classic Reprint)

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Devising little points and subtle distinctions, to en able the accused party to escape conviction. And it was so. But it was done from the purest, the most praiseworthy of motives - by the Bar, from a sense of duty to their clients; by the Bench, from a feeling of humanity towards the accused. At a time when our criminal code was the most sanguinary of any in Europe, when every felony was punished with death, no wonder that the judges, in fwvorem vita, listened favourably to objections and nice distin c tions, which, if now introduced for the first time, would not be entertained for a moment. And even.

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