The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators
The Assassination of President Lincoln and the trial of the conspirators David E. Herold, Mary E. Surratt, Lewis Payne, George A. Atzerodt, Edward Spangler, Samuel A. Mudd, Samuel Arnold, Michael O'Laughlin. : Containing the orders convening the commission; rules for its guidance; pleas of the accused to the jurisdiction of the commission, and for severance of trial; testimony in full concerning the assassination, and attending circumstances; flight, pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth; attempted assassination of Hon. W.H. Seward, Secretary of State. : Official documents and testimony relating to the following plots ...
David E Herold; Benn Pitman; Alexander Hay Ritchie; United States. Army. Military Commission (Lincoln's assassins : 1865); Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin,
Publishers: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin, 25 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati. New York, 60 Walker Street..
1865
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Trial of Andrew Johnson, president of the United States, before the Senate of the United States, on impeachment by the House of Representatives for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Trials
Impeachment
Johnson, Andrew, -- 1808-1875
President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial.
Andrew Johnson, Benjamin Perley Poore, United States. Congress
Govt. Print. Off.
1868
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English
Proceedings in the Ku Klux trials at Columbia, S.C., in the United States Circuit Court, November term, 1871
Ku Klux Klan
Trials
Conspiracy
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
These are the actual trial transcripts of the Ku Klux Klan trials of the 19th century.
Benn Pitman; Ku-Klux-Klan.; United States. Circuit Court.
Printed from Government copy
Republican Printing Company, State Printers
1872
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English
Reports of the trials of Colonel Aaron Burr, (late vice president of the United States,) for treason, and for a misdemeanor, in preparing the means of a military expedition against Mexico, a territory of the King of Spain, with whom the United States were at peace: In the Circuit court of the United States, held at the city of Richmond, in the district of Virginia, in the summer term of the year 1807. To which is added, an appendix, containing the arguments and evidence in support and defence of the motion afterwards made by the counsel for the United States, to commit A. Burr, H. Blannerhassett [sic] and I. Smith to be sent for trial to the state of Kentucky, for treason or misdemeanor, alleged to be committed there.
Trials
Burr, Aaron, -- 1756-1836
Treason
Conspiracy
This rare legal document is the transcript of the trial or Aaron Burr for treason...
Burr, A., Blennerhassett, H., Smith, I., Robertson, D., United States
Published by Hopkins and Earle, Fry and Kammerer, printers.
1808
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English
A compleat history of the whole proceedings of the Parliament of Great Britain against Dr. Henry Sacheverell with his tryal before the House of Peers : for high crimes and misdemeanors, the reasons of those Lords that enter'd their protests and the speeches of several Lords before judgment was given.
Trials
Sacheverell, Henry, -- 1674?-1724
Impeachment
A popular preacher at Oxford University, Henry Sacheverell independently published his controversial sermon in which he attacked Catholics by comparing the Gunpowder Plot to the execution of Charles I.
Henry Sacheverell, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.
J. Baker
1710
Book
English
Trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946.
Trials
War Crimes
Goring, Hermann, -- 1893-1946
Hess, Rudolf, -- 1894-1987
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, -- 1893-1946
Ley, Robert, -- d. 1945
Keitel, Wilhelm, -- 1882-1946
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst
Rosenberg, Alfred, -- 1893-1946
Frank, Hans, -- 1900-1946
Frick, Wilhelm, -- 1877-1946
Streicher, Julius, -- 1885-1946
Funk, Walther, -- 1890-1960
Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley, -- 1877-1970
Krupp, Gustav
Donitz, Karl, -- 1891-1980
Raeder, Erich, -- 1876-1960
Schirach, Baldur von, -- 1907-1974
Sauckel, Fritz, -- 1894-1946
Jodl, Alfred, -- 1890-1946
Bormann, Martin, -- 1900-1945
Papen, Franz von, -- 1879-1969
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, -- 1892-1946
Speer, Albert, -- 1905-1981
Neurath, Konstantin, -- Freiherr von, -- 1873-1956
Fritzsche, Hans, -- 1900-1953
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials.
International Military Tribunal.
Nuremberg, Germany
1947-1949
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English
The trial of John Peltier : for a libel against Napoleon Buonaparté, at the Court of King's-Bench, Middlesex, on Monday the 21st of February, 1803.
Trials
Libel
Napoleon -- I, -- Emperor of the French, -- 1769-1821
Peltier, Jean-Gabriel, -- 1760-1825
Jean-Gabriel Peltier, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, Great Britain. Court of King's Bench.
Cox, Son, and Baylis
1803
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English
The trial of John Peter Zenger, of New-York, printer who was charged with having printed and published a libel against the government, and acquitted : with a narrative of his case. To which is now added, being never printed before, the trial of Mr. William Owen, bookseller, near Temple-Bar, who was also charged with the publication of a libel against the government .
Trials
Libel
Freedom of the Press
Zenger, John Peter, -- 1697-1746
This is a landmark case for freedom of the press.
John Peter Zenger, W Owen, New York (State). Supreme Court.
J. Almon
1765
Book
English
Buchanan Poisoning Case
Trials
Murder
Poison
Morphine
This New York trial was significant as it was one of the earliest trials to be fought almost entirely on forensic science testimony.
Robert W. Buchanan, John R. Fellows, Charles W. Brooke, William J. Sullivan, Charles E. Davison, Herbert W. Knight, People of the State of New York.
Martin B. Brown Law Printers and Staioner
1894
Book
English
2 Vols.
The Jeff Davis piracy cases : full report of the trial of William Smith for piracy as one of the crew of the confederate privateer, the Jeff Davis : before Judges Grier and Cadwalader in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania : held at Philadelphia in October, 1861
Trials
Piracy
Smith, William
Jefferson Davis (Privateer)
William Smith, D F Murphy, United States. Circuit Court (Pennsylvania : Eastern District)
King & Baird, printers
1861
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English