The
control of the judge has disappeared. The lawyers are only memories.
They have become only plain business men with something definite to
do. They do not know how to do it and the discussion begins in a
desultory way.
"Well, we ought to give that boy something."
"I don't like the looks of that last witness."
"That lawyer for the defendant was too smart."
"But do you think the driver tried to cut him off?"
"He couldn't have been in bed six weeks."
"No man would stay in bed that long with a sore knee."
"Oh, well, he only meant he was about the house."
"That doctor was a great one. He loved to get off those terms; he must
be just graduated from the hospital."
"Did you hear the lawyer say in a case he tried in Brooklyn he had
seventeen of those experts?"
"Well, let's take another vote and see if we can't get together."
"I can't stay here all day. I've got to close something important at
four o'clock."
"You'll stay here if you have to; we want to get this settled right."
Another vote is taken. The result is the same and the two sides
gradually assume opposing positions. Each one takes a leader and
spokesman; the discussion is probably between those two and an
occasional interjection by the others.
Pages:
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179