The Court of Criminal Appeal (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Court of Criminal AppealThe Court of Criminal Appeal has now been in existence for nearly three and a half years - a sufficient time for the determination of most of the main principles which govern its action, and therefore, perhaps, to permit the appearance of a book which seeks to show, in some measure, the Court in actual being.As is perhaps inevitable in the introduction of any great change, the expression of many fears as to the evil results of the establishment of a Court of Criminal Appeal marked the moment of its birth. It was said that the number of appeals would be so large and the work so great as to almost cripple the trial of civil disputes, that the cost entailed would be enormous, that there would be an interference with vital principles which would be fraught with far-reaching consequences the reverse of good, and that all this would be the outcome of a development in our system of criminal jurisprudence which was quite un necessary, since the administration of the criminal law was so near perfection as to call for no supervision. It is easy to be wise after the event, and few people will now say that these fears have been realised.Leaving out the incomplete year 1908, the number of applications for leave to appeal and appeals was 627 in 1909 and 712 in 1910. For the nine months of this year the number is 474, as compared with 520 last year, so that the years do not reveal any steady increase. When it is borne in mind that, roughly speaking, some persons are convicted each year who may appeal to the Court, the number of actual appellants is seen to be remarkably small.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.