The district attorney was aghast at such a miscarriage of
justice, and the judge showed plainly by his demeanor his
opinion of such a verdict. But the old inhabitant of
Schleswig-Holstein cared for this not a whit. The old mother
in Schleswig-Holstein might still clasp her son in her arms
before she died! The defendant was arraigned at the bar.
Then for the first time, and to the surprise and disgust of
No. 11, he admitted in answer to the questions of the clerk
that his parents were both dead and that he was born in
Hamburg, a town for whose inhabitants the old juryman had,
like others of his compatriots, a constitutional antipathy.

The "tricks" of the trade as practised by the astute and
unscrupulous criminal lawyer vary with the stage of the case
and the character of the crime charged. They are also adapted
with careful attention to the disposition, experience and
capacity of the particular district attorney who happens to be
trying the case against the defendant. An illustration of one
of these occurred during the prosecution of a bartender for
selling "spirituous liquors" without a proper license. He was
defended by an old war-horse of the criminal bar famous for
his astuteness and ability to laugh a case out of court. The
assistant district attorney who appeared against him was a
young man recently appointed to office, and who was almost
overcome at the idea of trying a case against so well known a
practitioner. He had personally conducted but very few cases,
had an excessive conception of his own dignity, and dreaded
nothing so much as to appear ridiculous. Everything, except
the evidence, favored the defendant, who, however, was, beyond
every doubt, guilty of the offence charged.