Trials, Great Britain, Famous Trials, United Kingdom Famous Trials, Biographies, Travers Humphreys, English biographies 

"Stories of famous, infamous and even obscure trials, provided that they have the element of drama and humanity in them, always command a large public. Here is the latest, and one of the best of these volumes. Sir Travers Humphreys, one of the most eminent and respected of our judges, looks back upon the long years of his experience on the bench and at the Bar, and discusses in a frank and almost conversational style the many cases that he considers particularly interesting: they stretch way back into the last century, when he first began his brilliant career. They are divided into three parts. Part I concerns 'three old trials'. The first is the case of Belt v. Lawes, which the author himself considers the most interesting of the trio. the second case concerns a lamentable injustice in the case of Lord Cochrane's trial for conspiracy in 1815, in which the jury was not to blame!" - Cover 

Contents:
Introduction
Part 1. Three old trials
Belt v. Lawes
The Colin Campbell case
The trial of Lord Cochrane
Part 2. Some trials in which I was engaged as counsel
Oscar Wilde
Kitty Byron
The Reubens brothers
The Crippen case
The case of the Seddons
Hooley and Bottomley
Rex v. George Joseph Smith
D. S. Windell
The button and badge murder
Some spies - I
Some spies - II
High treason - I
High treason - II
The great Pearl case
William Cooper Hobbs
Bywaters and Thompson
Some solicitors
Some forgers
Blackmail
The Gutteridge case
Part 3. Six cases which I tried
The Chinese murder
R. v. Benton
The case of Ernest Brown
R. v. James Camb
John George Haigh
Some observations on the case of Mrs. Barney
Index