{
  "name": "Routes from arraignment for a prisoner who would not plead, one row per step",
  "desc": "The routes from arraignment for a prisoner charged with felony, as Blackstone sets them out, with the changes of 1772 and 1827, one row per step. Compiled by Hoax and Hindsight, 2026-11-06. License of this compilation: CC BY 4.0. Column sources: label, outcome and period = William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, 7th ed., vol. 4 (Oxford, 1775), pp. 324-329, and James Bradley Thayer, A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law (Boston, 1898), pp. 77-78, as named in each row; the note on Corey = Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700), in S. G. Drake, ed., vol. 3 (Roxbury, 1866), pp. 44-45. Facts from sources that do not permit reuse are not included in this file; see the article's Exhibits.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Hoax and Hindsight",
  "url": "https://hoaxandhindsight.com/trials/giles-corey/",
  "from": [
    "William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, vol. 4 (Oxford, 1775); James Bradley Thayer, A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law (Boston, 1898); Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700), in S. G. Drake, ed., vol. 3 (Roxbury, 1866)"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Hoax and Hindsight from the data listed",
  "data_by": [
    "William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, vol. 4 (Oxford, 1775); James Bradley Thayer, A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law (Boston, 1898); Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700), in S. G. Drake, ed., vol. 3 (Roxbury, 1866)"
  ]
}