Do you
think I care what this jury does? Not one mite. I got a nice
little error into the case the very first day--and I've set
back ever since. S'pose we are convicted? I'll get Jim here
[the prisoner] out on a certificate and it'll be two years
before the Court of Appeals will get around to the case.
Meantime Jim'll be out makin' money to pay me my fee--won't
you, Jim? Then your witnesses, will be gone, and nobody'll
remember what on earth it's all about. You'll be down in Wall
Street practicing real law yourself, and the indictment will
kick around the office for a year or so, all covered with
dust, and then some day I'll get a friend of mine to come in
quietly and move to dismiss. And it'll be dismissed. Don't
you worry! Why, a thousand other murders will have been
committed in this county by the time that happens. Bless your
soul! You can't go on tryin' the same man forever! Give the
other fellers a chance. You shake your head? Well, it's a
fact. I've been doin' it for forty years.
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