Excerpt from The Prisoner at the Bar: Sidelights on the Administration of Criminal Justice The favorable reception accorded to the Prisoner at the Bar, not only in the United States but in England, and the fact that it has won a place in sev eral colleges and law schools as a reference book, and in some instances as a sort of elementary text book upon criminal procedure, have resulted in a demand for a new edition. When the book was writ ten the author's sole intention was to present in readable form a popular account of the administra tion of criminal justice. Upon its publication he discovered-to his surprise that it was the only book of its exact character in the English language or perhaps in any other. Reviewers pointed out that whereas there were annotated text-books of crim inal procedure and isolated articles on special top ics, most of them relating to the jury system, there was in existence no other sketch of criminal justice as a whole, from arrest to conviction, based upon either actual experience or hearsay. 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.