"But the details——"
"Crassa ignorantia!" cried the assessor, raising his voice. "Did he not resist the capture? Did he steal Tengelyi's papers because they were eatables? which, I admit, would constitute an extenuating circumstance; or is he under age, or a lunatic? Or is the gang to which he belongs indicted before any court at law?"
Völgyeshy remarked, that the case was so intricate that it would take the court at least three days to sift it.
"Three days, indeed! I'd do away with twenty of these rascals in much less time than that!"
"It seems you have forgotten what the prisoner said concerning certain accusations——"
"Which have nothing whatever to do with the question at issue," cried Baron Shoskuty; "there's no mention of them in the minutes. I mean to forget them."
"Sir!"
"Baron Shoskuty is right," said the assessor; "the prisoner's nonsensical talk has nothing in common with the species facti—it's no use mentioning it."
"But what is to become of the completeness of the record?" cried Völgyeshy, angrily.
"It's a stupid formality. See chapter 6. paragraph 5. of the articles, where it is provided that the court is at liberty to dispense with the forms of the courts at law."