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...plain middle-fortyish woman who sat on the front bench, apparently listening. Most eyes were engaged in watching Judge Tillman Davis Johnson settle himself behind his bench for a morning's work. Judge Johnson is 69 and not undistinguished in appearance. Few of the people in the courtroom even noticed the plain lady when she rose from her seat and approached the bench with a folded magazine in her hand...
...lady gained everyone's attention, in another two seconds, however, by whisking an automatic pistol from her magazine and firing two peremptory shots at Judge Johnson. The courtroom banged with noise. Splinters flew from the woodwork and a blackboard behind Judge Johnson, whose reflexes made him huddle down into his chair so suddenly that the next moment he tumbled down the bench step, though as yet unhurt...
...murder. This letter, in the hands of the Chinese woman, leads to the discovery of her guilt after acquittal by a jury trial. The Trial of Mary Dugan. As the ever laggard audience strolled into the National Theatre they found the curtain up. It was an uninteresting, drab courtroom scene they saw and it, too, filled up gradually with actors-lawyers, policemen, scrub women, gum-chewing onlookers-who meandered onto the stage as haphazardly as the audience to their seats. Then the Judge rapped for order. Ann Harding, as Mary Dugan, accused of murdering her paramour, was ushered into court...
...opportunity to find errors if they existed. "We are coming to the time", Mr. Boynton went on to say, "when the decisions of our courts and their findings are the subject for mass meetings, as if a case could be handled more intelligently in mass meetings than in a courtroom." The popular petitions to alter or set aside decisions usually come from people who know nothing of the case, he believes, and it is evidence that our institutions are endangered...
Dialogue ensued between the Court and Sari, while a packed courtroom chuckled its own interpretations...