After the following episode a certain lawyer decided never to try irony on a jury again. He was prosecuting a man who had been caught redhanded on the roof of a house, obviously a guilty burglar, and wound up his speech to the jury as follows:
'If you consider, gentlemen, that the accused was on the roof for the purpose of enjoying the midnight breeze and by pure accident happended to have about him the necessary tools of a house-breaker, with no dishonest intention of employing them, you will, of course, acquit him.'
And the jury did.
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