Report Of The Trial Of Charles N Baldwin For A Libel In Publishing In The Republican Chronicle

by H W Warner Reporter

$350 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

New York, NY : Printed and published by C. N. Baldwin, corner of Chatham and Chamber Streets, 1818. Disbound. 22.5 cm. 124pp. Old Worcester Co. Law Library stamp on title page. A few neat ink annotations in margins. The jury deliberated only 15 minutes before acquitting Baldwin, whose charges were supported by independent investigation. The affair undermined public confidence in lotteries and led the NY legislature in 1819 to pass a law prohibiting any new

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