If petty larceny be his offence, I exhort you, do not confound meanness of crime with diminutiveness of stature.

These things have no connection.

I have known a tall man stoop to the basest action, a short man aspire to the height of crime, a fair man be guilty of the foulest actions, &c.
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Perhaps the offender has been guilty of some atrocious and aggravated murder.

Here is the most difficult case of all.