Celebrated trials of all countries, and remarkable cases of criminal jurisprudence
By: selected by a member of the Philadelphia bar.
Contributors: Smith, J. Jay 1798-1881.
Publisher: E.L. Carey & A. Hart
Published: 1835
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
Subjects: Trials; Trials (Murder)
Description: Comprises 88 cases, including Salem witches, execution for forgery in 1828, and Chapman poison case in Bucks Co., Pa., in 1832. Includes many cases furnished by the London Annual Register.
Notes: Compiled by John Jay Smith. Cf. Cohen.

Cohen, M.L.  Bib. of early Amer. law, 12112

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LC copy has mounted leaf on p. p. [2] of cover, with inscription: Thomas Dawes Eliot ex dono Daniel Ricketson, 1835.