ance of the language
add ignorance of
in which their trials are conducted
an imperfect
and only gain knowledge of what is going on,
through interpreters. -
"The common run of trials" says "Mr. Stephen passes somewhat this;
"I'en a twelve monthard Clowns" "looking
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as an eminent advocate once
"observed" like overdriven cattle are
"crowded together in the dock. Their
"minds are confounded by formulas about challenging the jury standing "in their deliverance, and pleading "to the indictment; the case is "opened, and the witnesses called by
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man to whom the whole process
"has become
"whose
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a mere routine, and
very coolness must confuse, "and bewilder ignorant and "interested jurors after the witnesses
"has been examined, comes a scene.
which most lawyers know by heart, "but which I can never bear without pain
"till a
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Scarcely any ignorant person can
story of the simplest kind
"without irrelevant details, and "omissions caused by the assumption "that what they know themselves is "equally well known to others. Judges after have not the patience to sift out "the grain of wheat from the bushels "of chaff which are
on such occasions
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