A full and accurate report of the trial of William P. Darnes, on an indictment found by the grand jury of the County of St. Louis
Subtitle: at the September term, 1840, of the said criminal court of the said county, on a charge of manslaughter in the third degree, for the death of Andrew J. Davis in the city of St. Louis on the first of June, 1840 : Containing the speeches of Peter H. Engle and Thomas T. Gantt, Esqs., counsel for the prosecution, and of Henry S. Geyer, Beverly Allen, and Joseph B. Crockett, Esqs., counsel for the traverser, together with the testimony of the state and defendant's witnesses, copiously given, and at full length
By: taken principally in short hand by a member of the St. Louis Bar.
Contributors: Allen, Beverly, 1800-1845.; Beaumont, William, 1785-1853.; Crockett, Joseph B.; Darnes, William P.; Engle, Peter H.; Gantt, Thomas T. 1814-1889.; Geyer, Henry S. 1790-1859.; Saint Louis County (Mo.). Criminal Court.
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Saint Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Darnes, William P. -- Trials, litigation, etc; Davis, Andrew J. d. 1840; Trials (Manslaughter) -- Missouri -- Saint Louis
Genres: Trials, litigation, etc.
Notes: Cohen, M.L.  Bib. of early Amer. law, 12493
The reporter was Thomas S. Nelson. Cf. Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law, v. 4, p. 457.
Includes the testimony of one of the attending physicians, William Beaumont.