text:  We may be mistaken but we cannot help imagining that if Lord Cottenham unquestionably so able as an equity judge had on the maxim _cuique sua arte credendum_ given a little more weight to the opinions of those whose whole lives had been passed not in equity but criminal courts or had seen for himself the working of the criminal law he would have paused before disturbing such complicated--necessarily complicated--machinery and would not have spoken of the consequences as being so very slight and unimportant--nay as so very beneficial