Statistics for occurrence #1 of “San Francisco” in chapter 17, page 169 of William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1:
...an, and when we send a murderer to the gallows, he complains that he is made the victim of his judge, and not his jury.
A judge will never get twelve men to find a female guilty of wilful murder in San Francisco ; nor in any other city west of the Rocky Mountains.
An excuse is always found by the jury; a petticoat being too much for bar and bench!
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