They are also adapted with careful attention to the disposition, experience and capacity of the particular district attorney who happens to be trying the case against the defendant.

An illustration of one of these occurred during the prosecution of a bartender for selling "spirituous liquors" without a proper license.

He was defended by an old war-horse of the criminal bar famous for his astuteness and ability to laugh a case out of court.

The assistant district attorney who appeared against him was a young man recently appointed to office, and who was almost overcome at the idea of trying a case against so well known a practitioner.

He had personally conducted but very few cases, had an excessive conception of his own dignity, and dreaded nothing so much as to appear ridiculous.