English Causes Celebres: Or Reports of Remarkable Trials (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Craik, George L.

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ISBN 10: 1330717279 ISBN 13: 9781330717271

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from English Causes Celebres: Or Reports of Remarkable Trials This work aims at presenting, in a popular form, everything that can be made generally interesting in an extensive but little explored department of our literature, the records of proceedings of all kinds in Courts of Justice. There is no richer store-house of curious and authentic facts illustrative of human character and conduct. Even what are called civil cases, or pleas between private parties relating merely to rights of property or to injuries for which compensation is sought in pecuniary damages, sometimes bring out the most extraordinary scenes of life or conflicts of evidence. Witness the famous Douglas cause. In so far, again, as trials at law nave had for their object the investigation of crime, they are a history of passion and adventure often as exciting as any fiction, with all the impressiveness and substantial value of truth. The contemplation of the mere naked act of crime, indeed, is neither very salutary, nor very attractive to minds of any cultivation; but the disclosures on a trial have seldom much reference to that; their absorbing interest is commonly derived from other sources altogether: first, from the train of circumstances which led to the conception of the crime, the education, habits, and character of the criminal, his temptations and prompting opportunities; secondly, from the course of means by which he pursued his object, frequently displaying talent and courage of a high order, but generally wading deeper in guilt at every step, and committing many crimes in order to compass one; thirdly, from the progress of the evidence upon which the fate of the accused person hangs suspended, often in the trembling balance of life and death. These are all sources of interest, not only of a legitimate kind, but even of a moral character, fraught with instruction and improvement for head and heart. And as for the power of such details to take hold of the imagination, all experie

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Excerpt from English Causes Celebres: Or Reports of Remarkable Trials

The Trial of Count Konigsmark and others, for the Murder of Thomas Esq. 1682.

The Trial of Colonel James Turner, John Turner, William Turner, and Ely Turner, at the Old Bailey, for Felony and Burglary. 1664.

The Trial of Robert Hawkins, Clerk, Minister of Chilton, in Bucking hamshire, for Felony. 1669.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330717279
• ISBN 13: 9781330717271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310