On the Trial by Jury

From the introductory NOTE. Starkie's well-known article on the "Trial by Jury" was published in the Law Review in August, 1845. It early attracted the notice of scholars, and it has been praised and relied upon by the best English and German writers on the subject of which it treats.1 Messrs. Little, Brown, & Co. have now kindly consented to reprint it, - for the convenience, primarily, of the classes in evidence at the Law School of Harvard University. This article is but a fragment, yet,...