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Excerpt from Modern State Trials, Vol. 1 of 2: Revised and Illustrated With Essays and Notes The prosecution of the Wakefields for conspiracy, and the abduction of Miss Tamer, forms a singular chapter in legal history; interesting not less to the student of human nature on account of its characters and incidents, than to the lawyer for those elaborate discussions on the Scottish law of marriage, and the right of the wife, even should there have been a legal marriage, to appear as a witness against the offending husband, which were argued with such profuse learning and ability. But for these memorabilia, and the knowledge that all the facts con nected with so remarkable a conviction were to be inserted at length in the next collection of State Trials, the Editor would have preferred omitting this peculiar case, lest it should open wounds long since healed, and lacerate private feelings. His comments are strictly confined to the evidence actually adduced, but he has been informed that a far more favourable interpretation might have been given to the few circumstances which implicated the daughter of the late Dr. Davies, had witnesses been called on her behalf. 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.

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