“Chatter!” cried the woman, beating her hards on the table. “Do you call this chatter? I charge you,—do you hear me, I charge you with the ruin of this man's life.”

“Madam,” said Randolph Mason, “the vice of your error lies in the fact that you should have consulted a priest. I am not concerned with the nonsense of emotion.”

Then he turned abruptly and walked out of the room.

(See Amer, and Eng. Enc of Law. vol. ii., page 926, and the cases there discussed; see also State us. Richardson, S.C. 35 Lawyers' Reports Annotated, 238, and cases there cited; also Constitution of the United States, Art., and the Constitution of West Virginia Art. 3, Sec. 5.)


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