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MRS, HERMAN H, HIRSCH. 675

THE SPEECHES TO THE JURY.

ME, ARNOLD FOR THE STATE.

Mr, Arnold. Gentlemen, in the brief space at my disposal,
T could not possibly discuas all of the facts in this ease. It
has taken over a day and half for the hearing of the wit-
nesses and it is therefore only possible for me to touch the
high points. I hope to get all the high points in the testi-
mony before my time expires. Every case is controlled by
a few main features in the evidence. These features it is im-
possible to get around. Gentlemen, this is a really hard case
to argue because the facts are so clear.

Gentlemen of the jury, I hate to think that the day can
ever come when there shall be one law for the rich and one
for the poor in the State of Georgia. Before the law all per-
sons are alike, and because a man is wealthy cannot prejudice
the minds of honest men against him. We all have a chance
to become rich, it depends entirely upon ourselves, When
by our industry and business application we gather what we
regard as riches, it must not be said that we are unprotected
from the attacks of envious and unscrupulous characters.
We all want to become rich, This woman wanted to become
rich at one lick. She set a huge figure for one immoral act.

The greatest enemy to good law, it has been said, is the
man who says, ‘‘the defendant is a woman, She is guilty,
but, because of her sex, let us turn her loose.”? Gentlemen,
such arguments trample justice under foot. You said that
you were impartial in your minds in this case when you
answered the voir dire, not merely that you were impartial
except where there was a woman in the case. God pity that
man, that snufiling, sniffling, spineless creature that loses his
head over s woman's tears.

I do not want to be hard on anybody. The verdict in this
eage cannot be hard. The law of Georgia classes the crime
ouly as a misdemeanor. I think that it ought to be a felony, but

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