Then he added briskly: "But the intent, your Honor! There can be no crime without a wrongful intent; and how can there have been any such when my client honestly believed that he had the money in the bank to meet the check ?" "But," cried the other, "he knew very well he had not!" "What evidence have you to that effect ?" queried Gottlieb.

"You say so, to be sure, but I, on the contrary, assert that he was perfectly honest in the matter.

Now, there is absolutely nothing in this case to prove that he had any guilty knowledge to the effect that his account was too low to meet the draft in question.

You have proven no scienter whatever." "Ah!" exclaimed the judge.

"That is it! You have shown no scienter!" "Exactly!" cried Gottlieb--"no scienter at all." "But how in the world could I have proved a scienter ?" wrathfully demanded the lawyer.