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THE GREEN BAG

which allows criminals and criminal wit nesses to evade and suppress the truth, — whether these and other features of our criminal procedure which will readily sug gest themselves, are not put into relief as archaic, cumbersome, and destructive of the best results in the administration of

justice, in comparison with the swift, rigid, and effective "instruction" of the civil law, and its subsequent "audiencia" in the civil-law criminal court. (To be Continued) St. Louis. Mo., July, 1907.