Note 168 — VII. ITS OBSTACLES TO CONVICTION.

For valuable information in this connection, I am indebted to many friends, more particularly to Drs. Thayer, of New Hampshire, Phelps, of Vermont, Chas. Hooker, of Connecticut, Blatchford, of New York, Wood, of Pennsylvania, Thompson, of Delaware, Wroth, of Maryland, Brainard, of Illinois, Cameron, of Indiana, Leland, of Michigan, Le Boutillier, of Minnesota, Brisbane, of Wisconsin, Pope, of Missouri, Hoyt, of Tennessee, Haxall and Joynes, of Virginia, Semmes, of District of Columbia, Dickson, of North Carolina, Lopez, of Alabama, Barton, of Louisiana, (now of South Carolina,) and to my relatives, Woodbury and Bellamy Storer, Esqrs., of Maine and Ohio, and James M. Keith, Esq., of Boston, late District-Attorney for Norfolk and Plymouth Counties. In every instance, however, verification of the statutes has been made from copies in the State Library of Massachusetts.