Show PURSUIT OF The aim and end of all courts are to secure the methods of every court trial ought to be shaped in a way to bring out facts and obtain a full knowledge of the so that justice may be meted But any one who is familiar with court proceedings knows full well that instead of a concerted action to ascertain the it often results in a battle of wits' to see how much the truth be A man is charged with He may be innocent or he may be The district attorney comes into court armed with the indictment which says the defendant committed the and all his energies are not on ascertaining the truth or falsity of the but toward proving that it is On the other the counsel for the defendant comes not to inquire whether his client is but to baffle every attempt to prove him whether or To this end he uses all the art and cunning at his The outcome is that sometimes innocent men are punished and sometimes the guilty are set There isn't use in finding fault with present conditions unless you can suggest something We have an idea that if the motive of both sides in a court trial could be changed from sustaining or refuting charges to an impartial search for the verdict would more often be in accordance with But some of the straps in form of court rules which now bind would have to be while in other respects the liberties would have to be The a. |