They are absolutely innocent and there will be no difficulty in establishing their innocence before a jury.

But we are not anxious to proceed to a public trial, with all the useless suffering which it must entail.

In my experience before the bar I have found coroners and committing magistrates invariably predisposed toward the police.

They will commit on the flimsiest kind of evidence, content to leave the judicial determination of the case to the higher courts.

But the law invests you with a wide discretion in homicide cases.