Excerpt from Report of the Case of the Queen V. Edward John Eyre, on His Prosecution, in the Court of Queen's Bench, for High Crimes and Misdemeanours Alleged to Have Been Committed by Him in His Office as Governor of Jamaica, 1868 The learned judge, in conclusion, distinctly declined to enter into the evidence, lest he should prejudice the prisoners or prejudge the case, and he declared it to be the practice of great judges so to abstain. 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.