Cases on Criminal Law

Excerpt from Cases on Criminal Law

The cases included in this volume have been selected mainly from American Reports dating to the year 1914, and widely chosen from many state and federal jurisdictions, without preference, a few from the English decisions recognized as leading, with the aim of being equally serviceable in Law Schools of the different states devoting from one to two hours a week to the study of Criminal Law. To show the historical development of the subject, quotations from authoritative text writers of the past, and modern cases reviewing the older decisions, have been used, in place of the ancient English decisions, to which the author has observed students give little heed; in this way necessary economy of space has been effected. A brief chapter on the much neglected, yet highly important, subject of "Constitutional Rights of the Accused" has been inserted; otherwise the cases are confined to a consideration of the substantive law of Crimes, without special reference to the law of Procedure. A logical arrangement of topics has been striven for, and the cases placed, as far as possible, in a sequence which will permit the student to advance from one to another without leaving missing links of knowledge necessary to progress. Effort has been made to present cases interesting upon the facts. The footnotes have been designed to show where the law is in conflict, and also to indicate the law upon topics of which space has forbidden a fuller discussion.

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