Trials, Courts-Martial and Grand Juries A collection of nine broadsides and trial transcripts,...
Trials, Courts-Martial and Grand Juries A collection of nine broadsides and trial transcripts, variously dated 1679-1809 (principally 18th century), all unbound pamphlets (one in modern folder) dealing with murder, counterfeiting, bribery, arson and more. The trials include the 1776 conviction of Richard Smith and Thomas Brand Hollis for bribery (in connection with a rotten borough); the Presentment of the Grand Jury of the Hundred of Ossulston (1628); the 1755 trial of William Turton for the murder of John Holloway; and the court-martial of Serjeant Samuel George Grant for persuading men to desert (to enlist with the East India Company), notable for Grant's appeal to the Court of Common Pleas arguing that English law did not allow for martial law in times of peace. With two other related pamphlets of legal interest. [11]