Nothing could be of worse consequence, than that an officer of the Court should combine with a criminal to frustrate the sentence of the Court. (John Eardley Wilmot)

Nothing could be of worse consequence, than that an officer of the Court should combine with a criminal to frustrate the sentence of the Court.

John Eardley Wilmot

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