A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Trial: A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.