“I respectfully ask your lordship.” said counsel defending a orisoner charged with horse-stealing, “to impress upon the jury that it is a fundamental principle of law that it is better for 99 guilty to escape than for one innocent man to-be found euilty.” “Yes. that is true,” said the judge reflectively.’'“and I shall so,instruct the jury; but I shall add that in the opinion of the court it is probable that the 99 guilty men have already escaped!”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 21 February 1931, Page 12
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