08.29.2017 - By Professor Rab Houston
IMAGE: Wellcome Library, London, L0080105. ‘Madeleine Smith at the bar of the Justiciary, Edinburgh’. Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
NOTE: This is an image from the nineteenth century, but John Philip would have stood in the same place as the accused young woman, before a bench of judges and a jury of 15 men.