The Criminal Law Journal of India October 1927

Those ing of the legal profession amongst trades were the palmy days of the profession and callings lies tended to put the prwhen there were two or three members fession on a par with the general dealer"76 THE CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL [1927 in the minds of the unthinking. [...] the Plantagenets with the istitution of the "Assise " and received their first statutory recognition in the Constittions of Clarendon in the twelfth century The recent removal of the case of Rex v. Beecheroft to the old Bailey by reason of local prejudice is a reminder that at one time it was good ground of objection to a Juror that he was not possessed of private knoledge and informat [...] The paper—and the discussion thereon—appears in The Laneent of July 2. As a matter of fact it would be difficult to improve upon the way in which the propositions state the position of medical men in English Law at the present day. [...] In the present Edition the case-law on the subject has been brought jip to date and notes have in some places been re-written in view of the changes in the law and also of the opinion of the Judges expressed in recent cases. [...] The story of her trial is depicted to us in the present Edition by one of the leading playwrights of Great Britain and the Author of Murder and its Motives." The introduction of the present Editor is an excellent review of this famous case and is one of the most attractive features of the present work.