Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Court Week in Carthage
2. "Murder . . . by a Respectable Set of Men"
3. "To Vindicate the . . . Broken Pledge of the State"
4. Elections and Indictments
5. To Secure Pre-Trial Advantage
6. The Courtroom and the Contestants
7. A Jury of "Intelligence, Probity and Worth"
8. "Quiet Perjury to Screen a Murder"
9. "Suppositions Ought not to Hang Anyone"
10. To "Tranquilize the Public Mind"
11. "Away to a Land of Peace"
12. "The People Reign in the American Political World"
Afterword
Appendix—Religious Persuasion of Jurors
Bibliographical Note
Index