Identifier: reportoftrialofw00durr (find matches)
Title: Report of the trial of William Henry Theodore Durrant, indicted for the murder of Blanche Lamont, before the Superior Court of the city and county of San Francisco : including a full history of the case after defendant's conviction ... : also including a complete synopsis of the evidence in possession of the authorities in the case for the murder of Minnie Williams, for which Durrant was never tried, but which developed into an even stronger case than the one upon which he was convicted : illustrated from numerous photographs in the possession of the Police Department of San Francisco
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Durrant, William Henry Theodore, 1871-1898 Peixotto, Edgar D
Subjects: Durrant, William Henry Theodore, 1871-1898 Lamont, Blanche, d. 1895 Williams, Minnie Flora, d. 1895 Trials (Murder) Murder
Publisher: Detroit : Collector Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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date you have been brought here from your respectiveavocations to listen to the evidence and determine the important ques-tion of the guilt or innocence of this defendant. By the same Constitution and law is guaranteed to every suchperson the right to be represented by counsel. In this case theaccused has availed himself of the services of the three gentlemenwho have appeared for him, able and learned in their profession, andhow well and ably they have discharged their duties toward the de-fendant you all know. On the other hand the people are representedby the learned District Attorney and his assistant, elected by thepeople for the purpose of seeing that the criminal laws of the landare enforced; that these gentlemen have ably and faithfully performedthe duties of their office is apparent to all. In your capacity as jurors you represent the State, and one ofthe highest achievements of human government is to place twelvegood and true men in the jury box to pass upon and determine the
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JUDGE D. J. MURPHY.Who presided at the Trial. THE DURRANT CASE. 193 issues submitted to them. In a forum like this, with twelve honestjurors in the box, society, individual safety, life, and property areprotected. We all recognize the necessity of laws, and the equal necessityof their just and impartial enforcement, for the enforcement of thelaw is the safeguard of all we hold most dear; without just and effici-ent enforcement the law affords no protection; it is only by the pun-ishment of the guilty that society is protected, thereby affording pro-tection to the innocent. It is not in a spirit of revenge or retribution, nor even of satis-faction, that the criminal law inflicts punishments upon the guilty;the object of the law is to deter from crime by force of example; hence,if a person clearly proven guilty escapes punishment, the law so farfails of its object, society fails to that extent of protection, and some-thing is taken from the security of life and property. I am sure, gent

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