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Excerpt from Law Magazine, or Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Vol. 28: For August, 1842, and November, 1842 Moreover, when we remember that the great body of prisoners are illiterate persons, few of whom can afford the means of securing the assistance of counsel, it is palpable that any system which curtails the length and simplifies the form of indictments, and renders unnecessary the multiplicity of counts, must be productive of no trifling benefit to the unfortunate beings who stand at the bar of a criminal court. For what object can be witnessed more painfully ridiculous than the sight of a poor wretch, who can neither read nor write, and whose humble powers of apprehension are con founded and almost paralysed hy'shams and fear, yet striving in vain to collect the real charge against him from an indict ment of perhaps fifty folios and twenty counts, dressed up in the most approved confusion of Special pleading verbiage? Is it not treating common sense like folly, to say that such an indictment can give any information to such a person? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
