RULES OF EVIDENCE ON Pleas of the Crown, ILLUSTRATED FROM PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT TRIALS AND CASES. BY LEONARD MĄC NALLY, ESQ. BARRISTER AT LAW. RULES OF EVIDENCE ARE OF VAST IMPORTANCE TO ALL ORDERS LORD KENYON. PRINTED FOR J. BUTTERWORTH, LONDON, AND J. COOKE, DUBLIN, By H. Fitzpatrick, Capel-Street, Dublin. 1802. ΤΟ JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN, ESQ. ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNSEL AT LAW. THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED, FROM an affectionate attachment, and from a proud wish to make known to pofterity, that a reciprocal and an uninterrupted amity fubfifted between the AUTHOR and the MAN, whofe transcendent genius and philofophic mind foars above all competition WHOSE honeft and intrepid heart was never influenced in the SENATE, nor intimidated at the BAR, from exerting, with zeal, independence, and fpirit, his love to his country and his duty to his client. Dublin, Harcourt -Street, LEONARD MAC NALLY. THE ftricteft attention has been paid to preferve the language of the lawyers and judges, whose arguments and decifions are reported in this work: but there are many literal errors, which a laborious and fedulous attention to profeffional business in the courts, and an absence on circuit muft excufe. However, with all its imperfections, it is hoped, that the work will be found useful, from the information it contains, particularly at the affizes, where the practitioner has neither time nor opportunity to make researches into the numerous and voluminous reports of trials and cafes, from which the rules and illustrations herein formed and arranged, have been extracted. |