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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 21: practice of the law. (search)
to him, because any confession obtained by an officer by an inducement cannot be heard in a court of justice. Mr. District Attorney, you had better call your next witness. The court sustained my point. The attorney hadn't any next witness, and that boy went free, and there was no other testimony against the other two boys, and they all went home that evening, and so did the rest of the inhabitants of Malden. But that night they hanged the poor lawyer in effigy. I am glad to say that Malden I was not in my district then, so that it didn't alter the votes. The next time I was a candidate, and afterwards when I was running for office, Malden was largely on my side. I am certain the three boys voted for me every time, whatever the constable may have done. So that it will be seen that a lawyer's life is not free from thorns, and that sharp points of law even in favor of the greatest criminals are not to be despised or disregarded. I think I ought to set out here the facts o