iv The first and second volumes of this work have been published. The first volume is principally filled with cases collected in the courts of this city; the second volume contains a treatise on the criminal laws of the United States, more extensive than can be found in any other book and as far as the editors and publishers have been able to learn, the work has met with the deci ded approbation of the gentlemen of the bar. DEAR SIR, New-York, Sept. 6, 1824. I thank you for the information I have received from the perusal of your two volumes of Reports of Criminal Law Cases," and I consider publications of such a nature extremely important to the interest and safety of the community. The code of criminal law cannot be too thoroughly studied, nor too precisely understood, by every person concerned in the administration of justice. To render such collections safe and valuable, the details of the facts and proceedings in such case ought to be full and scrupulously accurate. I am happy to learn that you propose to enlarge your plan (as you have already begun in your second volume) so as to embrace the reports of state trials throughout the union. You will be obliged to confine yourself to cases of the most solemn import and of the greatest interest, and I wish you every possible encouragement, and the most extensive support. I am decidedly of opinion, that judicial proceedings, especially in criminal cases, ought to be laid open in the most authentic manner, to the intelligent and impartial observation of the public. I am, with great respect and regard, your ob't. Serv't. JACOB D. WHEELER, ESQ. DEAR SIR, New-York, Sept. 11, 1824. I have perused with much satisfaction, your two volumes of "Reports of Criminal Law Cases," which you had the goodness to leave with me. A collection of cases of this nature has been long desired by our profession, and cannot fail to prove extremely useful. Our criminal code differs materially from that of England, and renders reports of our own criminal and state trials highly important to every practising lawyer, I cannot withhold my approhation of the manner you have adopted in preparing these reports, and of the labour and talents you have displayed. I hope you will be amply remunerated, and thus encouraged to pursue the laudable undertaking. I cordially recommend them to public patronage. I am, dear sir, respectfully, your friend, JACOB D. WHEELER, Esq. SIR, J. O. HOFFMAN. New-York, Sept. 15, 1824. Various circumstances have as yet prevented my perusing the reports of Criminal Trials which you have already published, with that accuracy which would justify my passing an opinion on them; particularly as my business rarely calls me into the criminal courts. I can however say with great pleasure that I highly approve of the publication you now propose, to comprehend the important trials and decisions of criminal cases in our own courts, and those of the other states of the union. I very sincerely wish you success, reputation and emolument from its execution. I am, sir, with much respect, your obedient servant, JACOB D. WHEELER, ESQ. DEAR SIR, New-York, Sept. 3, 1824. Although aware how little importance is usually attatched to recommendations of this kind, I have the pleasure to think, in common with many of your bretheren at the bar, your work possesses strong claims to public patronage. Criminal trials interspersed with annotations, and a brief analysis of the law applicable to each class of cases as they arise in practice, stamp your work with originality of plan, while it has the more rare merit of combining general instruction with judicial precedent, and addressing itself with just pretensions of utility equally to the public and to the bar. Allow me to add, he must read your cases with indifference, who does not perceive them to be selected with care, intermingled with matter evincing much and attentive reading; digested with discrimi nation, and expressed in a style concise and perspicuous. Your's respectfully, JACOB D. WHEELER, ESQ. D. GRAHAM. New-York, Sept. 6, 1824. DEAR SIR, The manner in which you have heretofore edited your" Criminal Law Reports," entitles you to the unqualified approbation of our profession. Your proposed plan of reporting every criminal case throughout the union, will enable the profession of our own state to avail itself vi of the learning and researches of that of the sister states. It will tend to produce an uniformity in the trial, and perhaps the punishment of offenders in the several states, and preserve a portion of our history highly interesting to all classes of our people. 1 beg leave to express my entire confidence in your fitness for this important work, and my earnest wishes for your success. Your's truly, JACOB D. WHEELER, ESQ. WILLIAM M. PRICE. New-York, September 3, 1824. DEAR SIR, Your object in making a collection of American State Trials is highly meritorious, and its faithful execution will deserve the thanks of the profession. Many trials, involving questions interesting to the American lawyers and politicians, have not yet been published. Your reports of Criminal Law Cases, with notes and references, furnish ample testimony of the patience, industry and talent, which will be exerted in giving a character to your proposed work. With great confidence in the success of your undertaking, and with the best wishes for your prosperity, I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, H. MAXWELL. DEAR SIR, New-York September 4, 1824. I am gratified to find, that you intend publishing all the interesting Criminal Trials which have taken place throughout the United States. The crisis is favorable to such an enterprise. Our law must every day become more rational, and it is highly desirable that it should be uniform. Such a compilation of American Cases, will furnish the contemplative reader with subjects of comparison, the surest way of knowledge; and the notes and references to English authorities, made by one so competent as I know you to be, will open a vast field of useful speculation, and a sure road to the general advancement and improvement of our criminal jurisprudence. JACOB D. WHEELER. Your's respectfully, WILLIAM SAMPSON. TABLE OF CASES. A Antonio, The State of South-Carolina v. (Indictment for Coining, &c.) Almeida v. Certain Slaves, (Libel). 508 538 67 C Commonwealth v. Bean, 67 Commissioners of Almshouse v. Whistelo, (Bastardy) Commonwealth v. Judd, et al. (Conspiracy) 4194 293 Commonwealth v. Thompson, (Murder) 132 Commonwealth v. Schultz, (Habeas Corpus) 322 Croswell, The People v. (Libel) 538 545 Commonwealth v. Myers, (Murder) Ꭰ Darby, P. H. Decision in the case of, (Contempt of E Elwell v. Martin et al. (Assault and Battery, Rights of Master and Seaman). G Gillies, The United States v. (Rights of Citizenship) H Hart, United States v. (Retarding the passage of the 1 11 308 304 505 293 433 18 282 483 Lehre, State of South-Carolina v. (Libel) Livingston, North River Steam-Boat Company v. (Appeal) viii M Martin et al. Elwell v. (Assault and Battery. Rights of Master and Seaman) Moore et al. The People v. (Assault and Battery) M'Evoy et al. The People v. (Assault and Battery) Myers, The Commonwealth v. (Murder) N 11 82 237 414 423 545 North River Steam-Boat Comp. v. Livingston, (Appeal) 483 Slack, The Mayor, &c. of New-York v. 237 Schooner Active and Cargo, The United States v. risdiction) (Ju 264 State of South-Carolina v. Lehre, (Libel) 282 322 Schultz, The Commonwealth v. (Habeas Corpus) Stoughton v. Taylor, (Tresspass, Civil and Maritime) 382 Coining) T Thompson, The Commonwealth v. (Murder) U 508 312 382 United States v. Sch. Active and Cargo, (Jurisdiction) 264 Mail, &c.) W Whistelo, Commissioners of the Almshouse v. (Bas- 194 tardy) Washburn, In the Matter of, (Felony. Habeas Corpus) 473 532 |