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Show Sarcasm That !ut Have Kurt nnry W. Paine, the eminent F,s-Km F,s-Km lawyer, once went to one of the Interior towns of Maine, where a boy was on trial for arson He had no counsel, snd Mr Paine was assigned ty the court to take cburge of his case. He discovered, after a brief In tervlew with the boy. that he was half witted. The Jury, however, was composed of farmers who owned burns such as the defendant was al i'Ked to have set on lire, and. In spite of the boy's evident weakness of In telleet, they brought In a verdict of guilty. The presiding Judge turned to Mr. Paine, and remarked: "Have you any motion to make?" Mr. F'alne arose and, In his dry and weighty mnuner. answered: "No, your honor; I believe I have secured for this idiot boy all that the laws of Maine and the const! tullon of the United States allow a (rial of his peers." |