‘Gentlemen, if you come to the latter conclusion you are bound in the discharge of a painful duty which you and all of us owe to the public, irrespective of consequences: to bring in a verdict of guilty. But let no feeling of the heinousness of the crime induce you, for one moment, to act on the feeling that justice requires a victim. Justice requires no victim; justice requires and prefers that ninety-nine guilty men should escape, than that a hair of the head of one innocent man should be sacrificed to mistake. And may the Almighty guide you to a true and just verdict.’
