Why, then, his client had been thus ruthlessly dragged into court, to his great personal chagrin, his loss of time, his mental suffering, the attorney for defence could not say.

It was injustice of a monstrous sort! Prosecution might well feel relieved if no retaliatory action were later taken against them for false imprisonment.

This innocent young man must at once be discharged from custody.
When Dan Anderson sat down there was not a man in the jury who was not bathed in perspiration.

Abstruse thought was hard at work.

Blackman, J.P., perspiring no less than any member of the jury, drew himself up, but he was troubled.
"Evidence f'r the State," the Judge finally managed to stammer, turning to the attorney for the prosecution.
But it never came so far along as that.