“And you are positive as to the time you delivered the food?”
“Absolutely. I left right around eight minutes past eight. I got up there at eight-ten on the dot. I’ll bet that doesn’t miss it ten seconds either way.”
“And this was an electric clock in the restaurant?”
“Yes.”
“Cross-examine.” Kittering tossed the remark across to Perry Mason as though daring him to try to rattle this witness.
“Those electric clocks are always right?” Mason asked.
“Sure, that’s why they put them in.”
“Except when the power is temporarily interrupted?”
“Well, that sometimes happens,” the young man admitted.
“In this instance, how do you know that there hadn’t been a temporary interruption in power?”