A lawyer, defending his client on a charge of housebreaking, concluded his speech: “ Your lordship, I submit that my client did not break into the house at all. He found a window open and merely inserted his arm and removed several trifling articles. Now, sir, my client’s arm is, not himself, and I fail to see how you can justly punish th® whole individual for an offence committed by one of his limbs.” “ That argument.” said the Judge, “is well put. Following it logically, I sentence the defendant’s arm to two years’ imprisonment. He can accompany his arm if he wishes ” The, defendant smiled, and, with his lawyer’s assistance, unscrewed his artificial arm, stepped out of the dock, and left th® court. ' i. ' X
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Evening Star, Issue 22440, 10 September 1936, Page 2
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