Washington County News | 1928-02-09 | Page 2 | And this is Counted Good Legal Defense

And This Is Counted j Good Legal Defense "Criminal trials are Involved with fo many technicalities nowadays," said Attorney L. G. McCann, who at one time was a noted prosecuting attorney "that unquestionably a great many criminals escape their just deserts. Leniency to women witnesses was largely responsible for the opening wedge; and precedent, the bugaboo of all trial lawyers, has done the rest. "What could be more absurd than the testimony of Mike the Killer, rearrested re-arrested shortly after doing time under un-der the name of Jones? "'Now, Mr. Jones,' coos the prosecutor, prose-cutor, 'isn't it true that you were released re-leased from the penitentiary only a month ago, after dc.ing ten years for murder?' "And Mr. Jones, alias Mike the Killer, who has read the newspapers, promptly answers, 'I don't remember.' " Los Angeles Tltr.es.