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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Man in Court, by Frederic DeWitt Wells
Title: The Man in Court
Author: Frederic DeWitt Wells
Release Date: November 10, 2005 [eBook #17041]
Language: English
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The Man in Court
By
Frederic DeWitt Wells
Justice, Municipal Court of New York City
G.P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1917
Copyright, 1917
BY
FREDERIC DeWITT WELLS
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
To
MY FRIEND
CHARLES E. GOSTENHOFER
OF THE NEW YORK BAR
IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HIS AID AND SUGGESTIONS
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
INTRODUCTIONToC
The author has tried to show the point of view of the ordinary man in a law court, as the various proceedings of a trial take shape before him. To the initiated, the whole book may seem too obvious; but it has not been written for them, but for those to whom these proceedings are unfamiliar. There are many who have a certain curiosity about the courts, and at the same time a real respect for justice, mingled with amusement at the panoplies and antiquated forms of legal procedure.
F. DeW. W.
NEW YORK,
January, 1917.
CONTENTS
| Page | ||
| Introduction | iii | |
| I.— | A Night Court | 3 |
| II.— | The Civil Court | 21 |
| III.— | The Judge | 39 |
| IV.— | The Anxious Jury | 57 |
| V.— | The Strenuous Lawyer | 75 |
| VI.— | The Worried Client | 93 |
| VII.— | Programs and Pleadings | 111 |
| VIII.— | Picking the Jury | 129 |
| IX.— | Opening the Case | 149 |
| X.— | The Confused Witness | 165 |
| XI.— | Those Technical Objections | 183 |
| XII.— | The Movements in Court | 201 |
| XIII.— | Elocution | 219 |
| XIV.— | The Heavy Charge | 235 |
| XV.— | The True Verdict | 251 |
| XVI.— | Looking Backward | 265 |
IToC
A NIGHT COURT
In the Night Court the drama is vital and throbbing. As the saddest object to contemplate is a play where the essentials are wrong, so in this court the fundamentals of the law are the cause of making it an uncomfortable and pathetic spectacle.
The women who are brought before the Night Court are not heroines, but the criminal law does not seem better than they. It makes little attempt to mitigate any of the