First published in 1903, this book is a compulsively readable theory of cross-examination, enriched with entertaining and enlightening examples drawn from Wellman’s own practice and those from the infamous cases…

Full Title: The Trial of Carlyle W. Harris for Poisoning His Wife, Helen Potts, at New York Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of…

With the cross-examinations of important witnesses in some celebrated cases. Wellman, one of the great nineteenth-century trial lawyers, made his reputation in the musty New York courtrooms of the 1880s…