Trial of Sir Roger Casement Author:Roger Casement Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I-THE TRIAL. IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE, LONDON, MONDAY, 26TH JUNE, 1916, EEFORE The Lord Chief Justice Of England (viscount Reading), Mr. Justice Av... more »ory, Mr. Justice Horridge, And A Jury. King's Coroner (Mr. Leonard W. Kershaw). Counsel for the Crown— The Attorney-general (The Right Hon. Sir Frederick Smith, K.C., M.P.), The Solicitor-general (The Right Hon. Sir George Cave, K.C., M.P.), Mr. A. H. Bodkin, Mr. Travers Humphreys, Mr. G. A. H. Branson, Instructed by Sir Charles W. Mathews, K.C.B., Director of Public Prosecutions. Counsel for the Prisoner— Mr. A. M. Sullivan (K.C. and Second Serjeant of the IrishBar), Mr. T. Artemus Jones, Mr. J. H. Morgan, Instructed by Mr. G. Gavan Duffy, assisted by Mr. Michael Francis Doyle, of the American Bar. THE TRIAL. First Day—Monday, 26th June, 1916. An Ushbr Of Thb Court—Oyez. My lords the King's Justices do strictly charge and command all manner of persons to keep silence, for they will now proceed to the pleas of the Crown and arraignment of prisoners upon their lives and deaths, and all those that are bound by recognisance to give evidence against any of the prisoners which shall be at- the bar, let them come forth and give their evidence, or they will forfeit their recognisance. God save the King. The Kino's Coroner—Sir Roger Casement, you stand indicted and charged on the presentment of the grand jury with the following offence: — High treason, by adhering to the King's enemies elsewhere than in the King's realm—to wit, in the Empire of Germany—contrary to the Treason Act, 1351, 25 Edward III., statute 5, chapter 2. The particulars of offence alleged in the indictment are that you, Sir Roger David Casement, otherwise known as Sir Roger Casement, knight, on the 1st day of Decembe...« less