How Justice Is Defeated

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 26, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 26.

How Justice Is Defeated

Justice is not always triumphant in these courts. Judges are sometimes prejudiced, purchasable, venal. Jurors may be bought, juries packed; technicalities of law may override equity and right; false witnesses may blind to the truth; pathetic pleas may move jurors to injustice; lawyers may sell their clients. Appeal after appeal may be taken till the heinousness of the crime is forgotten and sympathy for the criminal prevails. Or in civil suits the cost exceeds all damage, and lawyers only have profited. A thousand and one things conspire to defeat justice.