Sir Richard David Muir, prosecuting, showed that the claims about the King were a complete fiction.
In opposition was "as formidable a team as ever conducted a prosecution" - Edward Carson, later Baron Carson, F. E. Smith, later Earl Birkenhead and Richard Muir.
The defence at his trial was that he was insane, which was undoubtedly true, but Sir Richard Muir for the prosecution argued that under the M'Naghten Rules he "knew what he was doing and knew that it was wrong" and that he was therefore legally responsible.
When the Stratton brothers were brought to trial, MacNaghten, Collins, and Richard Muir, the prosecutor for the Crown, knew that they would face an uphill battle.
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