Excerpt from Reports of State Trials, Vol. 4: 1839 to 1843 This volume contains reports of Trials between the years 1839 and 1843. On the completion of the third volume of the series Mr. John Macdonell resigned the editorship, and Mr. John E. P. Wallis was appointed to succeed him. Mr. Macdonell was at the same time appointed a member of the State Trials Committee. To this volume applies the remark made in the Prefaces to earlier volumes: The Committee are in no way responsible for the statements contained in any of the cases; and they were not, in their Choice of trials to be printed in full, guided by any opinion which they might entertain as to the conclusions arrived at by either judge or jury on any occasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.