| 'Magistrate: "You have heard the prosecutor read out a list of your previous convictions. Have you anything to say?" |
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| 'Accused: "Nobody's perfect, your worship."' |
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| - (1972) 1 Rhodesian Law Journal 131. |
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| '"I am innocent, as God is my witness." |
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| "Are you requesting an adjournment in order to call Him?"' |
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| - (1973) 13 Rhodesian Law Journal 61. |
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| She was charged with living off the earnings of prostitutes. She went into the box. In cross-examination she was asked to account for the large sums of money found in her house. |
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| 'Accused: "They were for meals provided and servicings rendered.' |
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| - Ellison Kahn's commonplace book. |
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| The accused was found guilty of culpable homicide and was asked by the judge if he had anything to say before sentence was passed. |
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| 'My lord, as God is my judge, I am not guilty.' |
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| The judge: 'He is not. I am. You are. Seven years.' |
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| - Ellison Kahn's commonplace book. |
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| '"My lord, it should be taken into account that the accused has five wives, and twenty-two children. |
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| '"This would seem to be a mitigating circumstance for suicide rather than for murder."' |
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| - (1982) 22 Zimbabwe Law Journal 196. |
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| 'Do you plead guilty or not guilty?' |
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| 'I can't say yet. I haven't heard the evidence.' |
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| - Ellison Kahn's commonplace book. |
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