He defended eighteen in the Court of Appeals, of which only two were reversed.

One of the writer's associates computed that he had secured, during a four years' term of office, twenty-nine convictions in which appeals had been taken.

Of these but two were reversed, one of them immediately resulting in the defendant's re-conviction for the same crime.

The other is still pending and the defendant awaiting his trial.

Certainly there is little in the actual figures to give color to the impression that the criminal profits by mere technicalities on appeal,--at least in New York State.
In nine cases out of ten the reversal of a conviction in a criminal case is due to the carelessness or inefficiency of the prosecuting officer or trial judge and not to any inadequacy in our methods of procedure.
Yet the tenth case, the case where the criminal does beat the law by a technicality, does more harm than can easily be estimated.