"Did you compare it with the stains on garments worn by a certain Tony Corfino at the time of his accident?"
"I did."
"What did you find?"
"The two samples were entirely different?"
"Could we assume, then, that the blood of a man known as Tony Corfino does not flow through the veins of this defendant, who also bears the name of Tony Corfino?"
The witness rubbed his hand thoughtfully over the high, polished dome of his forehead.
"You could put it that way," he conceded.
With the skill of a symphony conductor calling upon the diverse instruments under his baton, Jake Emspak continued to bring forward a bewildering variety of witnesses to prove that in the identifiable details of his physiology, Tony Corfino indeed was not Tony Corfino. The D.A. watched in furious silence. Once, when Jake passed near him, he muttered:
"This is contemptible!"
Imperturbably, Jake turned back to the witness stand, where a radiographer from Scripps Institute was taking the oath. Patiently, he led the witness through a description of how the radiographies of the nasal accessory sinuses and mastoid processes could be used to establish the identity of an individual. Jake then produced medical records from a juvenile correctional institution in eastern Pennsylvania, where Tony Corfino had sojourned during his seventeenth year. Comparison with recent hospital records showed a striking difference between the two radiographies.