Even _The Law Times_ takes up much the same attitude as the lay journals. “It has always been our boast,” it states, “so far as the administration of our criminal law is concerned, that a prisoner must be deemed to be innocent until he is proved guilty and that the onus is upon the prosecution to prove his guilt. The effect of the Act of 1898 has been imperceptibly and gradually to change that position, and to a large extent nowadays the onus of proving his innocence in many cases in fact falls upon the accused.” Transcriber’s Notes • Italic text represented with surrounding _underscores_. • Bold text represented with surrounding =equal signs=. • Small Caps converted to ALL CAPS. • Obvious typographic errors silently corrected. • Variations in hyphenation and spelling left as in the original. • Footnotes renumbered consecutively and moved to the end of their respective chapters. There are two intentionally duplicated footnote references that use the same footnote source.