Illegality of the trial of John W. Webster
By: Lysander Spooner
Series: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America, from its discovery to the present time -- 6750
Publisher: B. Marsh
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Webster, John White, -- 1793-1850; Parkman, George, -- 1790-1849; Jury
Notes: "Dr. Webster was not tried by a legal jury ...  The jury was packed by excluding from the panel three persons, on account of their opposition to capital punishment."--p. [3]

Dr. Webster was tried in the Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, March 19-April 1, 1850, for the murder of Dr. George Parkman

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