Gunnison Valley News | 1928-02-09 | Page 7 | And this is Counted Good Legal Defense

And This Is Counted Good Legal Defense "Criminal trials are involved with so many technicalities nowadays," said Attorney L. G. McCacn, 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 doing ten years for murder?' "And Mr. Jones, alias Mike the Killer, who has read the newspapers, promptly answers, 'I don't remember." Los Angeles Times.