Excerpt from The Duties of a Judge Advocate: In a Trial Before a General Court-Martial, Compiled From Various Works on Military LawIt has been found that many of those appointed to fill the very important position of Judge Advocate, however well versed in general knowledge and legal attainments, are, nevertheless, deficient in those points of practice and clerical nicety which are requisite in the proper prepara tion of the proceedings of a general court-martial. Many excellent works are extant, and from them can be obtained all the information that could be desired, but these works are now difficult to be procured, and an officer in the field, called upon, for the first time, to discharge the responsible and multifarious duties of Judge Advocate, feels at a loss, unaided by them, to know how those duties are to be con ducted.To meet this want, the following treatise has been pre pared. The main object in its compilation has been to pre sent a brief, though at the same time comprehensive, dirce tion for the management of a case from its inception to its close, with the proper method of recording the several points likely to arise during the trial. It is presumed that the Judge Advocate is already fully instructed in the rules of evidence, the general principles of law, and the practice of criminal courts, and, therefore, those subjects are scarce ly touched upon. For them recourse must be had to other works, whose place this does not pretend to supply.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.