CHAPTER I THE MACHINERY OF THE LAW

The police and their duties--Divided control--Need for knowledge of local peculiarities--The fear of "corruption"--The police cell--Cleanliness and discomfort--Insufficient provision of diet, etc.--The casualty surgeon--The police court--The untrained magistrate--The assessor--Pleas of "guilty"--Case--Apathy of the public--Agents for the Poor--The prison van--The sheriff court--The procurator-fiscal--Procedure in the higher courts--The Scottish jury 189-209