[2] Russell's Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanours, which appeared in 1819 in two volumes in octavo, was pronounced by Warren (Law Student, 2nd edit.
[3] In 1847, J G Marvin said of the third London and fifth American editions:[4] The American editions, excepting the last, do not contain the whole of Russell on Crimes, from the supposed inapplicability, on the part of the editors, of certain parts of the work to this country.
The notes of American Cases are numerous and able, and no English law book has received more careful and excellent editorial care than Russell on Crimes.
Professor Whiteside remarks, that the second volume contains the best summary of the leading principles of the Law of Evidence, especially relating to Criminal Jurisprudence, he has ever met with.
It is said to have been drawn up by Mr. Williams, the learned author of the work on Executors.