Reports Of Criminal Cases Tried In The Municipal Court Of The City Of Boston

Author : Horatio Woodman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656026609
Total Pages : 746 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Reports of Criminal Cases, Tried in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston Before Peter Oxenbridge Thacher, Judge of That Court From 1823 to 1843 (Classic Reprint) written by Horatio Woodman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of Criminal Cases, Tried in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston Before Peter Oxenbridge Thacher, Judge of That Court From 1823 to 1843 The following volume has been prepared at the suggestion of several professional gentlemen, who were acquainted with the nature and importance of many of the questions decided in the Municipal Court of the city of Boston, during the period in which the late Judge Thacher presided over that tribunal. It has been thought that a selection from the Opinions and charges delivered by him, during the long period of his judicial labors, could hardly fail to be valuable as a contribution to criminal law in the United States; as well from its containing the results of an experience of twenty years exclusively devoted to that branch of the law, as from the extensive jurisdiction of the court over which he presided. It has been thought, also, that this volume may have a. General interest, as a record of the principal criminal cases which have been subjects of interest or excitement to the people of the city of Boston, during that time; from its local reminiscences, and from the light which it may throw upon the history of the city, during that period. The Municipal Court was established in the year 1799, on account of the great delays and expenses in administering justice in the town of Boston. The jurisdiction was at first very limited. In 1812, it was extended, concurrently with the jurisdiction of the Supreme Judicial Court, to all criminal cases in the county of Suffolk, not capital. Appeals to the Sn preme Court were originally allowed generally, after wards much limited, and by the statute of 1839, c. 161, were abolished, except on questions of law, to be car ried up by exceptions filed of record. The court had jurisdiction also of cases of lunatics to be sent to the Worcester State Asylum, and cases of additional sentences to be imposed on second and third comers to the State Prison, convicted in any of the courts of the Commonwealth. The first judge of the court was George Richards Minot, who held the office from its establishment to his death in 1802. Thomas Dawes was then appointed, and presided from that time to the year 1822, when he resigned. Josiah Quincy was the next judge, and held the office from January, 1822, to his resignation in May, 1823. 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.