on the same facts which will lead a sound jury to convict. A
famous prosecutor used to say, "Get your jury--the case will
take care of itself."

But as the examination of the panel and the opening address
come last in point of chronology it will be well to begin at
the beginning and see what the labors of the prosecutor are in
the initial stages of preparation. Let us take, for example,
some notorious case, where an unfortunate victim has died from
the effects of a poisoned pill or draught of medicine, or has
been found dead in his room with a revolver bullet in his
heart. Some time before the matter has come into the hands of
the prosecutor, the press and the police have generally been
doing more or less (usually less) effective work upon the
case. The yellow journals have evolved some theory of who is
the culprit and have loosed their respective reporters and
"special criminologists" upon him. Each has its own idea and
its own methods--often unscrupulous. And each has its own
particular victim upon whom it intends to fasten the blame.
Heaven save his reputation! Many an innocent man has been
ruined for life through the efforts of a newspaper "to make a
case," and, of course, the same thing, though happily in a
lesser degree, is true of the police and of some prosecutors
as well.

In every great criminal case there are always four different
and frequently antagonistic elements engaged in the work of
detection and prosecution--first, the police; second, the
district attorney; third, the press; and, lastly, the personal
friends and family of the deceased or injured party. Each