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The Trial Of John Gordon And William Gordon, Edward C. Larned (Reporter), William Knowles (Reporter)

Library Archive

The following pages contain the report of one of the most extraordinary murders ever committed in New England. No trial since the celebrated trial of the Rev. Eprahim K. Avery for the murder of Miss Cornell has created such extreme interest or produced such intense excitement in this State as the present. With all the Incidental Questions raised in the Trial carefully preserved—the Testimony of the Witnesses nearly verbatim—and the Arguments of Counsel and a Correct Plat of all the Localities described in the Testimony, prepared expressly for this Report.

Coyle V. The Commonwealth, Henry W. Rogers

Articles

"Homicidal mania must be proved, not assumed, nor confounded with reckless frenzy; To instruct, however, that it must be proved by 'clearly preponderating evidence' is error. All the authorities require is that the evidence proving it should 'fairly' preponderate.

"An attempt at suicide is not of itself evidence of insanity, and raises no legal presumption thereof....

"It was clearly proved that Coyle killed Emily Myers. That fact is admitted. The only defence set up is that he was insane at the time."

1881-1885 Rowan County (Ky.) Circuit Court Ordinary Docket, Rowan County (Ky.) Circuit Court

Rowan County Circuit Court Ledgers

Ordinary Docket from Rowan County (KY.) Circuit Court from May 1st 1881 to August 4th 1885.

The Surrender Of Fugitives From Justice, Thomas M. Cooley

Articles

The Constitution of the United States provides that "a person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime." The act of Congress of 1793 imposed the duty of surrender upon the executive of the State in which the fugitive should be found, and provided the manner in which the charge of crime should be authenticated for his action. It …

1876-1879 Fleming County (Ky.) Circuit Court Docket Ledger, Fleming County (Ky.) Circuit Court.

Rowan County Circuit Court Ledgers

The Ordinary Docket ledger of the Fleming County (KY.) Circuit Court from August 1876 to August 1879.

Extradition, Thomas M. Cooley

Articles

The policy of returning for trial and punishment the criminal of one country who has escaped to another, is not less manifest than its justice. It would seem, therefore, that there ought to be no great difficulty in agreeing upon the proper international regulations for the purpose. This, ho:wever, has until recently been practically an impossibility. While the leading nations of Christendom were engaged for a very large proportion of the time in inflicting upon each other all the mischief possible, it was not to be expected that they would be solicitous to assist in the enforcement of their respective …

Letter Written By Judge David Mcdonald To President Andrew Johnson, David Mcdonald

David McDonald (1842-1853)

Handwritten draft letter written by Judge David McDonald to President Andrew Johnson, dated May 10, 1865. The letter discusses the treason case against William Bowles, Lambdin P. Milligan, and Stephen Horsey. McDonald urges President Johnson to set aside the scheduled execution of the three men until the United States Supreme Court had a chance to review the case. The Supreme Court ultimately set aside the convictions in the case titled Ex parte Milligan.

History Of The Criminal Law Of Rhode Island, William R. Staples

Library Archive

Charge of William Staples to the Grand Jury discussing the history of criminal law.

The Criminal Code Of Virginia, Lucian Minor

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Charge Of Chief Justice Durfee, Job Durfee

Pamphlets: Contemporary Assessments of the Dorr Rebellion

No abstract provided.

American Criminal Trials, Peleg W. Chandler

Women in History & the Law

This is a modern account of the trial of Anne Hutchinson. Hutchinson was a midwife and healer, as well as a spiritual advisor in the Boston colony. She became embroiled in the Antinomian controversy, a religious schism that threatened to tear the colony apart. Hutchinson was arrested and charged with "transducing the ministers" and heresy. She was convicted and her family was banished from the colony in 1638. She and six members of her family were killed during Kieft's War several years later. Anne Hutchinson was only the first of several women tried for similar crimes in a short period …

Warrant For Samuel Courtauld Signed By Thomas Heyward Jr., June 13, 1788., Thomas Heyward Jr., State Of South Carolina

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Thomas Heyward signs a warrant for Samuel Courtauld for the collection of a debt owed to Josiah Smith, Daniel Desaussure and Edward Darrell in Charleston, SC, in 1788.

Fiends And Slime, Lawrence C. George

Florida State University Law Review

HARM TO OTHERS. By Joel Feinberg. New York: Oxford University Press. 1984. Pp. viii, 269. $22.50