Transcriber's Note:
Some obvious typographicalerrors have been corrected in this text. For a complete list pleasesee the bottom of the document.
The author has tried to show the point of view of the ordinary man ina law court, as the various proceedings of a trial take shape beforehim. To the initiated, the whole book may seem too obvious; but it hasnot been written for them, but for those to whom these proceedings areunfamiliar. There are many who have a certain curiosity about thecourts, and at the same time a real respect for justice, mingled withamusement at the panoplies and antiquated forms of legal procedure.
F. DeW. W.
NEW YORK,
January, 1917.