Pyrot is guilty, for he has been convicted.

As to saying more for or against his guilt, that would be to erect my own authority against that of the judges, a thing which I will take good care not to do.

Besides, it is useless, for Pyrot has been convicted.

If he has not been convicted because he is guilty, he is guilty because he has been convicted; it comes to the same thing.
I believe in his guilt as every good citizen ought to believe in it; and I will believe in it as long as the established jurisdiction will order me to believe in it, for it is not for a private person but for a judge to proclaim the innocence of a convicted person.

Human justice is venerable even in the errors inherent in its fallible and limited nature.