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 A Legal View of the Schley Inquiry. of more varied information about a general situation or a particular fact than a civil court. It prevents either party from con trolling the opinion of the court by not offer ing evidence which might damage such party, and it enables the court to contribute

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when soldiers wish to be sure that they are right, before they go ahead, they stop to take lessons of men whose professional busi ness it is to examine and cross-examine with out fear or favor, to argue to a definite point, without anxiety lest the world will lose truth

MERRILL A. TEAGUE, ESQ. a broad view of its own as distinguished from a narrow finding within more or less technical limits. Thus a court of inquiry is fundamentally a military and not a civil institution. Its prac tice, however, of trying to make some use of legal principles as distinguished from legal rules of evidence is a professional tribute by the army and navy to the value of the thought and experience of lawyers. Even

because one cannot talk on both sides at once, to control deliberation to evidence known by both sides to be in the case, and to give value to decision by confining it to what was examined and argued. In this case when the court had all the ad vantages of both legal and military assist ance, where the witnesses were almost all experts of one kind or another, where the court was not bound by rules of exclusion