Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, Vol. 5

Excerpt from Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine, Vol. 5: December, 1910 It is for the jury to pass upon the facts, and the judge should not usurp that prerogative. A judge and the attorney genera who arrogate to themselves the right to give to an indicted person a verdict of not guilty, when no wit nesses have' been summoned to attend that session of court, when the proseou tor has not been notified of the action intended to be taken, and when the case has not even been called for trial. 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.