Everything, except the evidence, favored the defendant, who, however, was, beyond every doubt, guilty of the offence charged.
The young assistant put in his case, calling his witnesses one by one, and examining them with the most feverish anxiety lest he should forget something.

The lawyer for the defence made no cross-examination and contented himself with smiling blandly as each witness left the stand.
The youthful prosecutor became more and more nervous.

He was sure that something was wrong, but he couldn't just make out what.

At the conclusion of the People's case the lawyer inquired, with a broad grin, "if that was all." The young assistant replied that it was, and that, in his opinion, it was "quite enough." "Let that be noted by the stenographer," remarked the lawyer.

"Now, if your Honors please," he continued, addressing the three judges of the Special Sessions, "you all know how interested I am to see these young lawyers growing up.