title: Courtrooms of the Mind: Stories and Advice on Judging Others Favorably
author:  Hanoch Teller 
description: A truly enjoyable read--these stories are almost too amazing to be true! --<i>Review</i>
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  The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley
  
  
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  # The Debatable Case of Mrs. Emsley
  
  
  ### Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  
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  This eBook was produced by: Jon Jermey
  
  
  The Strand Magazine, 1901
  
  
  
  
  
  [The cases dealt with in this series of studies of criminal
  
  
  psychology— studies of which the moral is more full of warning than
  
  
  that of many sermons—are taken from the actual history of crime,
  
  
  though occasionally names have been changed where their retention might
  
  
  cause pain to surviving relatives.]
  
  
  IN the fierce popular indignation which is excited by a sanguinary
  
  
  crime there is a tendency, in which judges and juries share, to brush
  
  
  aside or to treat as irrelevant those doubts the benefit of which is
  
  
  supposed to be one of the privileges of the accused. Lord Tenterden has
  
  
  whittled down the theory of doubt by declaring that a j