Illegality of the trial of John W. Webster.

  • Spooner, Lysander, 1808-1887.
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1850
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Illegality of the trial of John W. Webster. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Boston : B. Marsh, 1850.

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16 pages ; 23 cm

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"Dr. Webster was not tried by a legal jury ... The jury was packed by excluding from the panel three persons, on account of their opposition to capital punishment."--p. [3]
Dr. Webster was tried in the Supreme judicial court of Massachusetts, March 19-April 1, 1850, for the murder of Dr. George Parkman

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