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For an act of the
accused may sometimes be stated in such a way as
to tell heavily against him, and if our statement
makes a real impression on the mind of the judge,
it may serve to close his ears to all that is urged by
the defence. For as a general rule it is of advantage
to the accuser to mass his facts together and to the
defence to separate them.
I used also, with reference to the whole material
of the case, to do what I have already mentioned1
as being done with arguments, namely, after first
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setting forth all the facts without exception, I then
disposed of all of them with the one exception
of the fact which I wished to be believed. For
example, in charges of collusion it may be argued
as follows.
1 V. x. 66.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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