The Appellate Division reversed the conviction that had followed the arrest and discharged the prisoner, asserting that there was no longer any authority for holding him if the McDuff case was to be taken as law.
Thus it was, by such unconscious steps, that I, the only son of a clergyman, found myself--willy-nilly--a leader of the criminal bar.
Yet at no time during my career would I have exchanged places with my honored parent or even with Mr.Tuckerman Toddleham, of Barristers' Hall, Boston..