TRIAL OF 1 CHARLES B. HUNTINGTON FOR FORGERY. PRINCIPAL DEFENCE: INSANITY. PREPARED FOR PUBLICATION BY THE DEFENDANT'S COUNSEL, FROM FULL STENOGRAPHIC NOTES TAKEN BY MESSRS. ROBERTS & WARBURTON, LAW REPORTERS. NEW YORK: JOHN S. VOORHIES, LAW BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER, 1857. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by JOHN S. VOORHIES, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York I1151 494 1857 TESTIMONIALS TO THE ACCURACY OF THE WORK. THIS volume contains a faithful report of the trial of CHARLES B. HUNTINGTON. The evidence, charge of the judge, and arguments of counsel, were taken down by us stenographically, and we have no hesitation in certifying to the general accuracy of the work as published. ROBERTS & WARBURTON, No. 115 Nassau Street, N. Y. NEW YORK, JAN. 14, 1857. We have examined the report of the Huntington trial, made by Messrs. ROBERTS & WARBURTON, and feel pleasure in stating that it exhibits great accuracy and skill on the part of those gentlemen as stenographers. We have examined our testimony in the Huntington trial, as reported by ROBERTS & WARBURTON, Stenographers, and certify to its entire correctness. C. R. GILMAN, WILLARD PARKER, Medical Witnesses. ERRATA. On page 5, line 44, read "interpose a challenge," &c. On page 76, line 88, read " Carey v. Hotailing, 1 Hill, 311.” On page 85, last line, read "Comm. v. Chandler, Thacher's Crim. Cases." On page 120, line 22, for "has been," read "is." On page 121, line 7, for "can get over," read "con over." On page 285, line 30, for "at regular," read "at irregular." INTRODUCTION. THIS volume, containing a faithful report of an important trial, is published by the Prisoner's Counsel. Their client having been convicted, they would not for trivial reasons perpetuate the evidence that their labors were unsuccessful. They are willing, however, to have their defeat commemorated, if they may thus to any degree promote the increase of valuable scientific knowledge or the purposes of humanity. And it is chiefly for these objects, that the present work is printed. Huntington is now undergoing a felon's punishment. His case, remarkable in all its features, has special interest for the medical and legal professions in the circumstance that one defence put forward in his behalf was Insanity, of the species familiarly called "Moral." The opinions on that defence given at the time by Drs. PARKER and GILMAN of this city, though not contradicted by any witness, have been freely and most unfairly censured in many journals and periodicals and by a large portion of our community. It is due to those gentlemen,-who, in their part of this case, performed, most intelligently, an honorable, and a very obvious duty,-to preserve, in such form as to prevent misrepresentation, the evidence of all they have said or done a* 53989 |