Arthur Train, then an assistant district attorney in New York County, walks the reader through criminal justice as it actually worked, from arrest and the police court to trial, jury and sentence. He is frank about the weight of a prior record, the prejudices of judges and jurors and the human beings caught up at every stage; this is the enlarged second edition of 1915.
Lively and shrewd, by the lawyer who later created Mr. Tutt, and still illuminating on how courts really work. Download the free EPUB.