The lawyer was still feeling the sting of his humiliating failure with his star witness, and O'Hara's unexpected move surprised and flustered him, old hand as he was.

With halting words and without his usual assurance, he reviewed the evidence and asked for a conviction on both charges.
With O'Hara it was quite otherwise.

It was in just such a desperate situation that he was at his best.

The plight of the prisoner, lonely, beaten and defenceless, appealed to his chivalry.

Then, too, O'Hara, by blood and tradition, was a revolutionist.