Murder in the Shenandoah : making law sovereign in revolutionary Virginia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lowe, Jessica K. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
Series:	Studies in legal history.
Subjects:	Crane, John, > Jr., > -1792 > Trials, litigation, etc. Trials (Murder) > Virginia. Murder > West Virginia > Berkeley County > History > 18th century. Equality before the law > United States > History. Virginia > History > 1775-1865.

Table of Contents:

The facts of the fight
The making of a Republican judge
Examination : class, procedure, and local courts in Crane's Virginia
The bloody code and the logic of legal reform
Indictment : power shifts and power continuities in Virginia's courts
Crane's trial and its "imperfect" verdict
"That stigma on my character" : judges, judicial review, and "Republican" interpretation of the laws
Murder or manslaughter? : Crane's special verdict at the General Court
Pardon request : mercy and Crane's "lunatic fits."