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The Girl at the Halfway House

CHAPTER XXVIII
19/33

And alternatively we submit that the prisoner at the bar is a man of unsound mind and known to be such, not responsible for his acts, and not in any wise amenable to the capital features of the law.

I ask you, gentlemen of the jury, you who hold this man's life in your hands, are you going to hang a man for murder when it is not shown a murder has been done?
And would you hang a man who is more ignorant than a child of right and wrong?
Is that fair play?
Gentlemen, we are all here together, and one of us is as good as another.

Our ambitions are the same.

We stand here together for the best interests of this growing country--this country whose first word has always been fair play.

Now, is it your already formed wish to punish this man?
I say, no.


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