Treatise on Naval Courts Martial

Introductory preface;

1. Of the nature of naval courts martial;

2. Of particular places to which the jurisdiction of naval courts martial extends in regard to offences cognizable by them; and of such, when committed out of those local places or districts;

3. Of courts of inquiry;

4. Of persons subject and amenable to the jurisdiction of naval courts martial;

5. Of officers sitting on courts martial, by virtue of any local rank, superior to their own, established rank, conformably to seniority from the date of their first commission;

6. Of particular situations and circumstances which exempt and exclude officers, who by their seniority of rank are entitled to be members of a court martial;

7. Of a judge advocate;

8. Of arraignment and its incidents;

9. Of the please of which a criminal may avail himself;

10. Of the distinction between principals and accessaries, and the means of bringing offenders to trial;

11. Of evidence and witnesses;

12. Of an equality of voices on matters relative to trials by courts martial;

13. Of giving a verdict or opinion, and passing sentence;

14. Of the form of drawing out the sentence of a court martial;

15. Of appeals; 16. Enumeration of particulars in which courts martial in the land and sea service differ from each other;

Appendix.