The Trial of Thomas Hunter, Peter Hacket, Richard M'niel, James Gibb, and William M'lean, the Glasgow Cotton - Spinners, Before the High Court of Justicia

Publisher Marketing: Full Title: "The Trial of Thomas Hunter, Peter Hacket, Richard M'Niel, James Gibb, and William M'Lean, The Glasgow Cotton - Spinners, Before the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, on charges of Murder, hiring to commit assassinationsand Committing, and Hiring to"Description: "The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials" provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Court RecordYale Law LibraryEdinburgh: Published by William Tait, Peter M'Kenzie & Co., "Reformers' Gazette" Office, and W. R. M Phun, Glasgow; Effingham Wilson, and N. H. Cotes, London. 1838 Contributor Bio:  Marshall, James James Marshall' s short fiction has appeared in numerous Canadian literary magazines: PRISM International, The Malahat Review, Exile, The Literary Quarterly, and Prairie Fire. One of his stories was nominated for the National Magazine Award for fiction, the M&S Journey Prize, and it was a finalist in the 22nd Annual Western Magazine Awards, 2004. A collection of his short stories, Let' s Not Let a Little Thing Like the End of the World Come Between Us, was published by Thistledown Press in 2004, and it was shortlisted for both the 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Caribbean and Canada Region) in the ' Best First Book' category, and the ReLit Award for short fiction. James lives and writes in BC.