Excerpt from Commentaries on the Law of Criminal Procedure, or Pleading, Evidence, and Practice in Criminal Cases, Vol. 1 It is the purpose of the author, in future editions of his works connected with the criminal law, to make such improvements and additions as shall render them complete guides, as far as elementary books can be, both to students and to practitioners, in this department of our law. As observed in the Preface to the first edition, these two volumes on Criminal Procedure are not so closely connected with the work on the Criminal Law as to render their separate use inconvenient. Yet in divid ing the larger subject into Law and Procedure, for the two works, I took care that there should be as little repetition as possible in the one, of what was treated of in the other. And as such a division is necessarily artificial to a considerable extent, the result is that readers may sometimes be in doubt into which work to look for a particular thing. For this reason, I have in a few instances referred to the work on the Criminal Law, in the Alphabetical Index to these volumes. 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.