An investigation of the case of Abraham Thornton, who was tried at Warwick, August 8, 1817, for the willful murder, and afterwards arraigned for the rape, of Mary Ashford, (of which charges he was that day acquitted) / by an attorney at law.

An investigation of the case of Abraham Thornton, who was tried at Warwick, August 8, 1817, for the willful murder, and afterwards arraigned for the rape, of Mary Ashford, (of which charges he was that day acquitted) / by an attorney at law.

London : Published (for the author) by James Harper, bookseller, 1818.

74 pages : charts.

Making of modern law. Trials, 1600-1926.

Subtitle: Comprising faithful particulars of those remarkable and affecting trials, the opening speech of counsel, the prisoner's deposition, entire defence, and the charge of the learned judge, in which the journey of the deceased to the fatal field and pit, where the horrid deeds were supposed to be perpetrated, the prisoner's Alibi, his journey home, as computed by the court and his alledged journey are fully and arithmetically set forth in a clear, novel, and concise manner : to which are added, comparative scales and estimates of the respective distances and periods of the prisoner's computed journey, and his alledged journey, enabling the reader to comprehend, at one view, the whole of this mysterious case, remarks on the general evidence of Alibi, and various other important matter never before published : settled from authentic documents actually taken in court : locus in quo, with an exact engraved hot pressed map (15 inches by 11 inches) and scale of distance of the fields and roads surrounding the fatal pit where the body was found, an enlarged engraving and scale of the same fields, also a vignette of the pit, and a correct seperate engraving and scale of the size and form of the pit, the depth of the water, and position of the body, when found : being an answer to a work upon the same subject, entitled, "Wager of battle, Thornton and Mary Ashford, or An antidote to prejudice."
Reproduction of the original from Harvard Law School Library.

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