That license was a beer license!"
BEFORE TRIAL
To begin at the beginning, whenever a person has been
arrested, charged with crime, and has secured a criminal
lawyer to defend him, the first move of the latter is
naturally to try and nip the case in the bud by inducing the
complaining witness to abandon the prosecution. In a vast
number of cases he is successful. He appeals to the charity
of the injured party, quotes a little of the Scriptures and
the "Golden Rule," pictures the destitute condition of the
defendant's family should he be cast into prison, and the
dragging of an honored name in the gutter if he should be
convicted. Few complainants have ever before appeared in a
police court, and are filled with repugnance at the rough
treatment of prisoners and the suffering which they observe
upon every side. After they have seen the prisoner emerge
from the cells, pale, hollow-eyed, bedraggled, and have beheld
the tears of his wife and children as they crowd around the
husband and father, they begin to realize the horrible
consequences of a criminal prosecution and to regret that they
ever took the steps which have brought the wrong-doer where he
is.
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