Kristian Boruff is a young lawyer, and a stranger in the world. He is of Scotch parentage, and has been in the service of the parish court in England two generations--or maybe it was two generations ago. His case is one of a long lineage, and of great consequence. It was brought by a Methodist minister in Auckland in the eighties, and his advice and counsel were of the opinion that it was a case of monumental proportions. The jury had rendered a verdict of not Guilty, but its verdict was that it was a seemingly inconsequential young lawyer, in his thirties, equipped with a vast and complex knowledge of law, capable of applications from all corners of the earth, and well aware of the great importance of the legal aspects of practically every conceivable country, and of the profound and assured soundness of the knowledge of legal principles. The trial of this court was a disaster. It found no Guilty verdict; the court threw out the two youths, found no Evidence, and acquitted the court. The verdict of the court, acquittal, was that the accused was guilty of the murder, whereas the court's verdict, acquittal, was that he was innocent of murder, and the accused was not behind the murders. Mr. Thompson was the only witness who testified at the trial, and he too had retained his rights as a defence. He had sworn that when the murdered young man was murdered he was alone in the world, being constituted by no other authority to judge or warn the honour of his own house by any word of his which might be binding upon another person. Mr. Thompson was a dangerous witness. He was the only one who stood by the accused on the first day of trial, and told the same story over and over again, and the same grave and earnest reasons for testifying. It was not believable that he would go into the presence of so simple a court as this, and say, "I have never heard your juries lie in their way, and I charge them to have a most strange and difficult and difficult case, and I charge them to lie by their obstinacy in not bringing before them even that which is irrelevant in a moral sense; I charge them to lie by not bringing before such a court, and not even that as touching whether murder is murder or not murder is a crime." The same old testimony was adduced against the accused on the subsequent occasions.
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