Download or read book Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1919, Vol. 9 (Classic Reprint) written by American Institute of Crimi Criminology and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, 1919, Vol. 9 Our author is driven to admit that in spite of all the delays, vexa tions and inanities of the procedure in our courts-martial, he knows of no case, in nineteen months of experience as a Judge Advocate, where injustice has been done. And this with a relaxation of rules of evidence, which is inevitable in courts-martial. What becomes then, of our vaunted anglo-american civil criminal procedure, to which we have bowed in adoration these continuing centuries? What becomes of the shafts, the quips and quirks at the expense of the continental civil criminal procedure? Our rules of evidence, and our procedure before, during and after trial, are the result, none too happy, of our distrust of the jury and of the layman. What a commentary is this distrust upon the eulogiums of the jury. The truth of the matter is that the defendant had to be protected against the bias, the lack of experience, and the stupidity of juries, and judges in their wisdom have rushed to the assistance of prisoners - as well as of prosecutors; of defendants in a civil action in civil law, as well as of complainants in such an action. But jurors in courts-martial, to quote from Major Carter, are experienced in handling the kind of men they try. That seems to be more important than legal rules. 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.