[9]
For the accused either
confines himself to denying that he did it or accuses
another of having done it. Further, there is more
than one way of transferring the charge to another.
At times this results in mutual accusation, which the
Greeks call ἀντικατηγορία, and some of our own authors
concertative accusation.1 At times, on the other hand,
the charge is transferred to some person who
cannot be brought to trial, and may be either
known or unknown: again, if the person is known,
he may be someone outside the case or the victim
himself, who may be alleged to have committed
suicide.
1 i.e. mutual or reciprocal accusation, see VII. i. 3.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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