SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In January 1840, Samuel Holberry a Sheffield Chartist, was committed to trial at Sheffield Assizes for seditious conspiracy. A critical examination of the evidence presented at the committal hearing and subsequent Assize trial demonstrates that the court process was entirely one-sided. The quality of the evidence used to secure a conviction was, at the very least, suspect, and the prosecution appear to have withheld evidence that could have vindicated Holberry. An in-depth analysis of the case seeks to lay bare the workings of the coercive and judicial powers of the nineteenth century state.
Publication Date
2009-03-01
Publication Title
SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours
Volume
3
Issue
1
First Page
109
Last Page
124
ISSN
1754-0445
Deposit Date
March 2017
Embargo Period
2024-09-18
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Lewis, Catherine
(2009)
"Samuel Holberry: Chartist Conspirator or Victim of a State Conspiracy,"
SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective): Vol. 03:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/vol03/iss1/4
