Chronic Law - Middle Day Crime MP3

The Chairman of the Bench shuffled his papers and took the opportunity while the charge was being read again of having a good look at the person standing before him. She looked about twenty years old, but she could have been more. As his wife constantly reminded him, he was apt to underestimate women's ages. Although Mrs. Simmonds gracefully conceded this to be a good fault in a husband, it wasn't a help on the Bench. If she were under eighteen, he mused to himself, she was doli capax, which as the Clerk was sure to remind him at the earliest opportunity, meant she was capable of committing a crime but not always liable to be punished for so doing in the same way as someone of eighteen and older.

Chronic Law - Middle Day Crime MP3

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