Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Watsonian, Vol. 1: October, 1927
May it please the Court and Gentlemen Of the Jury; In my practice I have had some cases in which I have felt a deeper interest than I do in this one. I have represented mothers, robbed of their Off-spring, who came before the courts and pleaded that the children - hers by a title given in the awful agony Of the birth hour, should be brought back to her bosom for nurture and love. Then I have had an intense sympathy that no other cases can give. But I have never been counsel for a man where I feel more deeply than I do here. Con sider poor Jack Peavy! Hounded down like a beast Of the field. Hounded by men ravenous for his blood. Surrounded in his own field by ruffians armed with guns, and shot down like a dog without pity or warning! That's the way he comes to court. Why, Gentlemen, the most touching way to plead his case would be as Anthony plead Caesar's - to lay his body and show his wounds.
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