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The counsel for the prosecution will undoubtedly attempt to heave dust into your eyes. He will tell you that his client is pre-eminently a man of function, and one who would scorn to bring an action for the mere gratification of a personal curiosity. But, gen tlemen, let me cautionate you how to rely on such specious reasoning like this. I myself apprehend that if you could look into that man's heart, you would see there such a picture of moral turpitude and base ingratitude as never before exhibited since the Niagara Fall. Now, gentlemen, I wish to reason with you for a few moments, and see if I can't warp your judgments into bringing in a verdict for my unfortunate client, and then I will fetch my argument to a close. Here we have a poor man with a numerous wife and child, fetched up and arranged before an intelligent jury, charged with hooking — yes, ignominiously hook ing — five quarts of hard cider. You. gentlemen, have been in the same predicament, and know how to feel for my unfortunate client; and I trust, gentle men, that you will not allow the gushings of your sympathizing natures to be squenched by the surrep titious arguments of my ignorant opponent on the other side. Now, gentlemen, in the beautiful language of Shakspeare, if you are sure of the guilt of the prisoner, it is your duty to lean on the side of justice, and bring him in innocent. If you will keep in view this beautiful precept, you will have the honor of making a friend of my client and all his relations. But if on the other hand ycu neglect this precept, the silent twitches of con science will follow you over every fair cornfield, I reckon, and my downtrodden aud oppressed client will be apt to light upon you some of these dark nights like a cat on a saucer of new milk."
"Gentlemen of the jury, it is with feelings of no ordinary emotion that I rise to defend my injured An eminent lawyer gives the following amusing client from the attacks which have been made against his hitherto unapproachable character. I feel. 'ren- experience with a jury : — tlemen, that although I am a great denl smarter than any of you, even the judge himself, yet I am utterly To the Editor of the " Green Bai;": unable to present this case in that magnanimous and I have been much interested in the two articles on heart-rending light which its importance demands; 1 the subject of trial by jury in your October number; but I trust, gentlemen, that whatever I may lack in and although the bias of my judgment is on the side presenting it will be at once supplied by your own of the jury, I will tell you of a case which is as much natural good sense and discernment, — if you have against my judgment generally as it was against my got any. interest and my judgment particularly. In an action 69
