Failed in Effect.
A sarcastic and ironic method should never be employed with plain common-sense people, such as jurymen. Lord Bowen, when a young barrister, once wound up his speech for the prosecution of a prisoner with the following peroration :—: — "If you consider, gentlemen, that the accused was on the roof of the house for the purpose of enjoying the midnight breeze, and by pure accident happened, fco have about him the necessary tools of a housebreaker, with no dishonest intention of employing them, you will of course acquit him." Wh : ch the intelligent jury accordingly did» without a single moment's hesitation !
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Otago Witness, Issue 2249, 8 April 1897, Page 52
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102Failed in Effect. Otago Witness, Issue 2249, 8 April 1897, Page 52
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