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The Prisoner at the Bar has the subtitle Sidelights on the Administration of Criminal Justice and is by Arthur Cheney Train. The preface to the second edition says the book has won a place in several colleges and law schools as a reference book, and in some instances as a sort of elementary text-book upon criminal procedure. The preface says that when the book was written the author's sole intention was to present in readable form a popular account of the administration of criminal justice.
The text lists acts that are a crime in New York State, among them to run a horse race within a mile of where a court is sitting, to advertise as a divorce lawyer, and to keep a slot machine. The text says that if the person has actually been convicted before, the fact weighs heavily against him. The text says affidavits, letters, newspaper clippings and memoranda are submitted tending to show that he is of either good or bad character, and that the persons who present them are almost never sworn or placed upon the witness-stand.
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- Arthur Cheney Train
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
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- Sociology
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