The Law saw with its own eyes.

It was a single-track affair, narrow-visioned, caring nothing for what was to the right or the left.

It would tolerate no excuse which he might find for himself.

He had lied to save a human life, but that life the Law itself had wanted.

So he had both robbed and outraged the Law, even though a miracle saved him the greatest penalty of all.
The weight of the thing crushed him.