The life of Guiteau and the official history of the most exciting case on record : being the trial of Guiteau for assassinating PresGarfield … . P O o I .. JUDGE COX, OF THE SUPREME COURT, Before whom the Assassin was tried. LIFE AND TRIAL OF GU1TEAU. 73 fendant, I should feel it my duty to be more liberal than Ican possibly consent to be with the counsel now le occupies the double capacity of counsel and of a relative ;he is thus enabled to know definitely as much as any mancan possibly know about the history of the prisoners Honor will readily see that counsel can tell to


The life of Guiteau and the official history of the most exciting case on record : being the trial of Guiteau for assassinating PresGarfield … . P O o I .. JUDGE COX, OF THE SUPREME COURT, Before whom the Assassin was tried. LIFE AND TRIAL OF GU1TEAU. 73 fendant, I should feel it my duty to be more liberal than Ican possibly consent to be with the counsel now le occupies the double capacity of counsel and of a relative ;he is thus enabled to know definitely as much as any mancan possibly know about the history of the prisoners Honor will readily see that counsel can tell to-daywhat witnesses should be summoned on the question of in-sanity. He probably knew a month ago what witnesses oughtto be summoned; hence he has foreshadowed three pointsin this case: first, the question of law relating to jurisdic-tion; second, the question of irresponsibility of this man onaccount of insanity; and third, that the death of James was occasioned by malpractice on the part of thephysicians who attended him. The law is extremely liberalto persons accused of crime, and at present the law is moreliberal than it ever was; in f


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