Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Modern State Trials, Vol. 1 of 2: Revised and Illustrated With Essays and Notes
The two cases of murder, that of Lord William Russell by Courvoisier, and of Mr. Drummond by m'naughton, involve tepics of absorbing interest at the period of the occurrence, and of enduring interest to all time. In the one are involved the rights and duties, the privileges and immunities of counsel for prisoners; in the other, the fearful question of responsibility for crime how far moral insanity alone may exonerate the sufferer from the consequences of his guilt; whether m'naughton was not influenced by the same or ganie necessity which forces the cataract with rushing might from the precipice, or rather by that demoniacal possession which drove the herd furiously down the steep into the sea. If not a free agent, he certainly ought not to suffer; but the fact is one most difficult to determine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
