Excerpt from The Trial of Frank James for Murder: With Confessions of Dick LIDDIL and Clarence Hite, and History of the James Gang The indictment was returned by the grand jury' of Daviess county in May, 1883, and by agreement of the attorneys, August 21, was fixed as a date for the trial. Court convened promptly at 10 A. M., on that day and the case of State v. Frank James was called. The State was represented by attorneys W. P. Hamilton, prosecuting attorney of Daviess county; William H. Wallace, of Kansas City, Missouri; J. H. Shanklin, - of trenton, 'missouri; and M. A. Low, of Trenton; H. C. Mcdougal and J. F. Hiclin, of Gallatin, advisory counsel. The defendant was represented by Judge John F. Philips, of Kansas City; Wm. H. Rush, of Gallatin; Judge James H. Slover, of Independence, Missouri; Hon. John M. Glover, of St. Louis; Hon. Chas. P. Johnson, of St. Louis; Col. C. T. Garner, of Richmond, Missouri, and J. W. Alexander, of Gal latin. Judge Goodman on the bench. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.