[26] Townsend, vol. i. p. 398.
[27] Ante, p. 559.
[28] Townsend, vol. i. p. 396.
[29] Ibid. p. 400.
[30] It is said that the two physicians selected by Government to examine the prisoner, in company with those who did so on behalf of the defence, did not differ from them in opinion; and Mr Cockburn taunted Sir William Follett with not having called them, though they sate beside him in court. By that time Sir William Follett might have seen, during the progress of the trial, sufficient to make him distrust medical evidence altogether, come from whom it might!—Ibid. p. 378.
[31] Ibid. p. 400.
[32] Ibid.
[33] Townsend, vol. i. p. 325.
[34] Taylor's Medical Jurisprudence, p. 799.
[35] Ante, p. 562.