Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Criminal jurisprudence, though less metaphysical than commercial law, presents an extensive, diversified and interesting field of inquiry. Every lawyer should be thoroughly acquainted, theoretically at least, if not practically, with the machinery of public prosecutions, the structure of indictments, the rules of criminal pleading and evidence, and the legal principles which are involved in all state trials.