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The Trial of Henry Hetherington, on an Indictment for Blasphemy

Chapter 2: THE TRIAL
By H. Hetherington
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A full court transcript of a blasphemy prosecution reproduces the indictment and its several counts accusing the publication of derogatory commentary toward parts of the Bible, records the prosecution's opening, the defendant's legal arguments and cited authorities, witness examination and jury proceedings, and includes related newspaper extracts, publisher remarks, and appended legal materials cited in the defence.

THE TRIAL

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, December 8, 1840.

Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster, before Lord DENMAN and a Middlesex Special Jury.

PROSECUTION FOR BLASPHEMY.

THE QUEEN Versus HETHERINGTON.

This was a prosecution instituted by Her Majesty's Attorney-General, Sir John Campbell, against Henry Hetherington, bookseller, of 126, Strand, for the publication of a blasphemous libel.