The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal March 31 1906

That stain did much to send the owner of the coat to the gallows But what had become of the dog Cooper had so mysteriously seen ? The warder laughed at the idekof sucha.thi»g being in the cell. [...] "It came out afterlyard.that one of them invariably paraded in front of the `crib' which was being `.cracked.' The boy upstairS kept a sharp look-out at the window while he was at work and if the man in the street struck one match it was a sign of danger if two or more it indicated that the coast was clear." The case of Peilly a Frenchman is one of the most remarkable instances of mysterious [...] (I 11111 speaking now of the common law) Of any given number of children born in England were punished by haning—when limply were hanged for the most trivial offences and when all the machinery of the law was in the hands of the Government and directed against the individual ; so that the one thing that had to be done was to protect the individual. [...] In 1892 the notorious murderer Deeming then a prisoner undrr sentence of death in the Colony of Victoria petitioned the Privy Coun(bil for special leave to appeal from the decision of the criminal court of tbe colony on the ground 'that the conviction was against evidence that the petitioner was insane and that there was no fair trial or time for defence. [...] that in the circumstances the sessions judge was under no obligation to explain the law to the jury because the facts which might have reduced the offence to culpable homicide not amounting to murder or the doing of a rash and negligent act within the meaning of the penal "cede had not been put in issue by the appellant: This ruling of the local Court of Appeal seems almost inexplicable and c