Original sentence: During the period 1909–1912, there was an average of 450 annual applications for leave to appeal of which an average of 170 were granted.Rulings of the court included limitation of the lower courts' ability simultaneously to try multiple defendants, multiple indictments and disparate counts within an indictment.Though the court was staffed with the judges who had shown such hostility, it had a restraining effect on the excesses of prosecutors
Edited sentence: During the period 1909-1912, there was an average of 450 annual applications for leave to appeal of which an average of 170 were granted.Rulings of the Court included limitation of the lower courts' ability simultaneously to try multiple defendants, multiple indictments and disparate counts within an indictment.Though the Court was staffed with the judges who had shown such hostility, it had a remarkably restraining effect on the excesses of prosecutors