text:  Surely it is better far that these difficulties should in some instances be even wholly insuperable and that the prosecution should be defeated than that any change should come over the spirit in which these trials are now conducted; or that the crown should ever even attempt to make the criminal process of the law an instrument of tyranny and oppression as it was in the days of Scroggs and Jefferies and when juries through intimidation returned such verdicts as the crown desired