Show AN CM EXPECTED VERDICT the verdict in the burchell Burc bell case while partially foreshadowed shadowed fore toward I 1 I 1 the does close of tho the proceeding is buch such a complete and violent reversal of the I 1 early proceedings that moat most people I 1 will be completely surprised it is is 1 questionable if even tha the court did not realize that there was a hinge to hang bang a it doubt on atwould aa would appear by the a I unusually long period of time allotted the prisoner prior to the day of execution under the law he could bare have made the term much shorter eh orter english justice is proverbially swift when once put in motion it is very questionable however if it is correspondingly pon unerring it is not very long since an american woman w was as i I 1 convicted by a british jary jury of t ho crime of murdering her husband by the systematic administration of arsenic it was proved that she gave him the dreg drug but it was also proved that he lie was a habitual eater of it a I 1 perfect slave in infect fact and yet in the I 1 face of all the facts she would have bare been ignominiously hanged but for the interposition of the queen herself this i and other things make it appear that proceedings in courts of the V crown are more mechanical and precise than is always conducive to just and proper ends and that when ft A I 1 man once enters a jory jury panel there he at once becomes divested of BO so much of hia ble natural feeling and rational judgment as would make him I 1 I 1 other than a factor in the tile machinery of conviction he ile becomes a creature v eo so to speak of the prosecuting power I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 tr t r 1 I 1 and id too often does about ai as ho he too la e i pecked to do our oar legal procedure by means ot of which appeals are available to all accused cu ed persona personal are often c complained of because ol 01 permitting defendants indefinite periods of 0 time after conviction vic vict tion lon in which to have any real or assumed errors in the proceedings reviewed by courts established for that purpose but this was all arranged pursa pursuant ant to a maxim established by english lawgivers law givers themselves vea that it is better for a hundred guilty men to escape than for ono one innocent t man trian to be haneon besides vo we aro unable andar our liberal and representative senta tive institution institutions to uphold a system which admits of men or women being from the dock to the s af fild which is tho tile practice where no appeal ia is allowed ai as in capital cases it is quite possible it if burch burchell ell is either innocent or only technically guilty that eoma some influence favorable to his case may yet be brought to bear it if ha he is really guilty of course lie will get his just deserts by things going oa oil as they are to I 1 A conclusion |