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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Syester's Plea for His Client IN Volume I is told the story of the trial of Crawford Black, charged with the murder of Col. W. W. McKaig in one of the cities of Maryland many years ago. It is there seen that Black and McKaig met on one of Cumberland's streets, weapons were drawn, pistol shots rang out upon the air, McKaig fell dead and Black was heard to say: Now, seduce another sistei of mine. Since the publication of that volume the compiler has had the good fortune to find the report of the speech delivered in the case by Hon. A. K. Syester in behalf of the defendant. This speech deserves a prominent place in forensic literature, and is given herewith in the hope that it may not again become lost to the world. Argument of Mr. Syester MAY it please the court and gentlemen of the jury: In dealing with a case on which the life or death of a human being is embarked, I desire to treat of the facts and the law of the case, and of those alone. I shall find no time, and I entertain no inclination whatever to indulge in any remarks having reference to the relations which any persons bear to this case. The motives which may actuate others in the prosecution of my client, and their purposes have nothing to do with the real cause before you, except so far as they have fashioned and given tone and temper to the prosecution itself. But while I may with entire propriety withhold the expression of any opinion on the subjects just alluded to, my duty compels me to advert (and my feelings may lead me to do so with emphasis) to some of the circumstances that have marked this prosecution, and have distinguished it for bitterness, above anything of the kind that has ever fallen under my notice in the course of a practice of over seventeen years. Gentlemen, the importanc...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217959629
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217959628
  • Publisher Date: 08 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr


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