“Solicitor-General—But you must.
“I choose to be excused.
“Solicitor-General—But you cannot be excused.
“I tell you, I am not prepared to stand my trial now.
“Chief Justice—Answer you, prisoner at the bar, the question put to you by the Court—what say you, Linus Wilson Miller, guilty or not guilty?
“My Lord, that is a question which, as I before said, I am not now prepared to answer.
“Chief Justice—You must say, guilty or not guilty.
“Your lordship must excuse me.
“Chief Justice—“You shall answer either guilty or not guilty—it is only a mere matter of form.
“Doubtless your lordship considers hanging by one’s neck until dead only mere matter of form.”