TRIAL OF MICHAEL MARTIN, FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY, BEFORE THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS, FOR THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, OCTOBER TERM, 1821. REPORTED BY F.W. WALDO, ESQ.
Boston: Russell and Gardner, 1821. 36pp, with pages 33-36 in facsimile. Fair.
Martin was a highwayman, active in the border region between England and Scotland. He fled to American in 1819 and resumed his life of crime. In 1821, convicted of highway robbery in Massachusetts, he was executed.
The indictment charged that Martin, "otherwise called Joseph Hendley," armed with a pistol, robbed John Bray of nine dollars and a gold watch. The pamphlet identifies counsel and the jurors, prints counsel's opening and closing statements, summaries of testimony, a summary of Chief Justice Parker's charge to the jury, the verdict and sentencing. "A deed like this," Parker says, "could be committed only by one who is practiced in plunder, and hardened by habit in the most flagitious courses."
Cohen 14031. Sabin 44903. OCLC 12200185 [8] as of February 2018. Item #42436
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