Year: 1873

The attention which you have manifested,
gentlemen Of the Jury, throughout the whole of tina
trial and the sger interest with which the puDc have
watched s progress here, would tell yOu learned
IL not the lips OF counsel that in many respects this
il an extraordinary II ia singular in the character
which prisoner has presented TO you He wAs not
brought up IN misery and trained 10 sin and vice he
was brought ND at his mothers knee instructed tho
principles OF religion and OF law Taught go honor all
good aud true and 10 respect and fear the law lt
Is siu gular position which the prisoner occupies
toward the deceased who has fallen by hls
hand. II is not exactly true, the learned coun-
sci stated yesterday, that such has heretofore
been unknown TO State aud Jurisprudence ior be-
leye that in our State Of NewYork such crime has
before been committed. ard followed up aud punished
BY the law Yet It is unusual that one should stand
al the bar OF Court, any other court, charged
With tho murder OF parent. II j. singular IN tho
extren good fortunef may be permitted to nse tho
wordt singular in the extreme good fortuue which
has surrounded thr prisoner during this Investigation
He bas not stood here helpless and alone without y
friend and without counsel except such "s the court
may have seen ut 10 assign to him, es have seen
many poor fellow stand, unable 10 30 III anl tu h'
feeble voice IN his own eXculpation defebse.r 10
has spoken 10 you Through the lps of the moss
brilliant and able advocate who cOulO have been
leetsd this any other bar. aud hls has
finally been presented TO you by who has been for
many years looked upon the leader o profession.
He has here with ali the fires OF ms youtE sfl
burning in him. and has given all biz heart his in
teleet to the defense OF this young Whatever
be said or done. down 10 the last syllable act
done for this unhappy prisoner az the bar re-
joce. far as may rejoice in such this,
which rests upon me With a sense 0i hs -uleIunity,
and which fsw but you fully appreciate. Ia know
that this young has had everything GoEs fgr bim
that could possibly be done.


But after all, gentlemen OF the jury, thcs, arc oulv
the things which make ATTRACTIVE the public
eye The true incidents Of this cause with vblch
and have TO deal are neither singular nor rItraor-
nary. You not here tO try this prisoner upon his
character. stand here IN place and by -
lence give assent TO the proposition which nay learned
friend announced yesterday, that the law punshng
murder wac not made for all. IL is not he told YOU
q law for the punishment Of rufians villains made
TO be executed them only No man shall stand at
this bar be tired convicted Of this crime becsnss
be q rufan OF villain Re he the yilest uan whose
hands were ever stepped In human gore he be not
pronounced guilty beyond that reasonable doubt which


benign law allows In his favor then shah he 10 ao-
quilted and set at liberty. Standing here this bar
charged with crime, all stand alike on the same
evei no distinction be made between them. they
stand here to be judged by the accusations and evidence
brought against them.


VICTIM NOT TO BIZ JUDGED.


You DO Aot sand here 70 investigate pass Judgment
on the character Of the deceased; know popu-
lar opinion. aod in popular Judgment the euormiy ot
the crime is less governed by opinion had
of the victims. but by the Old Anglo Saxon law thas
each human life Is sacred and the wiful taking Of ono
human life be followed by the death of the per-
perator Our law does say that it shall be murder
TO take the life OF human being who rood and pure
and lovely ana Of good report II says that shall DO
murder wllfuly to take the life Of any human bsins.
No matter how foul, how degraded, how deprayed he
stands under the sanction OF law sacred from the
violence Of his fellowmen Nor you, gentlemen oe
the jury in considering ths issue be affected &C
all In your judgment Of by the relanos
which existed between these men Our law mshes no
distinction 10 the relations between the persons does
not make IL higher lower crime for 70 siay
his father than W say the yest Who may walk
the streets 10 other times aud other lands the stay
Ing OF ones parent has been viewed - crime out
rageo1s aud inhumaD; and it has peon said Of tbat