Scottish criminal law is unique in having three possible verdicts for a criminal trial: "guilty", "not guilty" and "not proven". Both "not guilty" and "not proven" result in an acquittal. The 'not proven' verdict in modern Scots criminal law can be described as an historical accident. Historically, there were no set forms for verdicts used by early juries, and their role was simply to find the guilt or innocence of the accused. The role of the jury changed when it became customary in the Justice Court to compose lengthy indictments, where facts were listed which culminated in a statement of the punishable character
Guilty Men Men" and argued that "unpreparedness before the war was largely the consequence of the policies of the parties of the Left". In 1944 Geoffrey Mander had published "We were not all wrong". The idea of appeasement as error and cowardice was challenged in 1960 by historian A. J. P. Taylor's controversial "The Origins of the Second World War", in which he argued that, in the circumstances, it might be seen as a rational policy. Guilty Men Guilty Men is a short book published in Great Britain in July 1940 that attacked British public figures for their failure to re-arm and