The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal January 31 1906

Iii the trials themselves the greatest interest would he felt—the evidence the deportment of the witnesses—the arguments of counsel keenly eriticised—the faces of the jury closely watched for tokens of sympathy with one side or the other—the judge's charge listened to with the respect due to the words of one so highly exalted—and lastly the finding of the jury waited for with anxiety. [...] 19 the well-beit of the country to do everything that can be done to uphold. them and to oppose everything that may tend to degrade them As regards the former the raising of the salaries of the judges was a step in the right direction but too small to be of any use in the premises. [...] In the view of the law the attack not only constitutes a criminal assault but in those extreme cases in which the death of the victim results the offenders are guilty of homicide Varying in degree according to the circumstances of the killing. [...] Seddon underwent the misery of a trial for murder was under the proper legal direction of the presiding judge found guilty of murder and the formal death sentence was dilly passed upon her with all the solenity of its accompaniments: As might have been foreseen the represetation of the circumstances to the Home Office resulted in an immediate commutation of the capital sentence to that [...] The prrogative of pardon exercised on the advice of the Home Secretary fulfils in the case of capital sentences for murder the purposes effected in other cases by the discretionary pow of of punishment vested in the judge.