Excerpt from Appletons' Annual Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1881, Vol. 21: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry In this volume the sad history of the fatal wounding and slow decline of the President are given in the article on Garfield, a summary of the points in the trial of the murderer is recounted, the important medico-legal question of Insanity as a Defense is discussed, and the constitutional question of Presidential Inability is presented, with the views of public men. 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.