text:  That law itself certainly intricate and involved had to deal with facts of almost unprecedented complication and difficulty; but after a long and desperate struggle the law triumphed over every obstacle that could be opposed to it by tortuous and pertinacious ingenuity: the case was correctly charged before the jury; most clearly established in evidence so as to satisfy not them only but all mankind; the jury returned a just verdict of guilty against all the parties charged--the court passed judgment in conformity with that verdict awarding to the offenders a serious but temperate measure of punishment--imprisonment fine and security for good behaviour