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Show The bar wondered, the jury stared, the populace stood amazed, to hear the learned judge rehearse a wordy act of ancient times, which made it unlawful for a physician to poison a patient to death without hia consent ! Well, it was a queer old law; but it reads a little singular in thechargo of a Federal court to a Federal grand jury. The judge must have had lomo object in calling attention to this musty law, and we pronounce the jury ia expected to indict the man who brained it and the Legislature who passed it. |