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Matamata Record, Volume XIV, Issue 1193, 5 February 1931, Page 1

'‘Prisoner at the bar/’ said the * Texas judge, “thi s ease of yours plumb beats me. You said you wanted to bring your own lawyers from your home town, and nary a lawyer has turned up. The jury, most of them strangers to me, have found you not guilty, although thirty-seven men, two women, and a stranger saw you plug Red Pete. Now that jury is supposed to know its own business, so you’re acquitted. But what about those lawyers?” “Well, judge,” said the prisoner, ”1 guess I’ll be getting along now. The boys will be waiting for me. There were six lawyers, and they was all on the jury. 5 ” ... t!r«A