Also article having same title in "Moral Overstrain," by same author.
See also, by Hon.

C.F.Amidon, "The Quest for Error and the doing of Justice," 40 American Law Rev.681, and article on same subject in "The Outlook" for June, 1906.
It is probably true that in some of the States such a tendency exists and may result in making the administration of justice a laughing stock, but it is far from being so in States of the character of New York and Massachusetts.

The Appellate Division, First Department, and Court of Appeals in New York are distinctly opposed to reversing criminal cases on technical grounds and are prone to disregard trivial error where the guilt of the defendant is clear.

The writer can recall no recent criminal case where the district attorney's office has felt aggrieved at the action of the higher courts, and on the contrary believes that their action is generally based on broad principles of public policy and common-sense.
During the year 1905 the district attorney of New York County defended forty-seven appeals from convictions in criminal cases in the Appellate Division.

Of these convictions only three were reversed.