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Show Counsel Had Gone to Great Length to Make It Clear The scene was in a courtroom. Counsel looked sternly at the man in the witness stand and demanded: demand-ed: "Did you, or did you not, on the date in question, or at any time previously or subsequently, say, or even intimate to the defendant or anyone else, whether friend or mere acquaintance, or, in fact, a stranger, that the statement imputed im-puted to you, whether just or unjust, un-just, and denied by the plaintiff, was a matter of no moment or otherwise? Answer me! Did you or did you not?" The man in the dock clutched at his throat. "Did I, or did I not, what?" he gasped. |