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Prisoner at the Bar 148: He anticipates serving about so much time ‘in stir’ and figures on beating about every other case before it reaches an actual trial.at beat, v.
Prisoner at the Bar 148: He anticipates serving about so much time ‘in stir’ and figures on beating about every other case before it reaches an actual trial. Prisoner at the Bar 287: Mr. Wellman [...] is likely to lead his witness a merry dance until the latter is finally ‘bogged’ in a quagmire of absurdities.at bogged, adj.
Prisoner at the Bar 45: What [the arrestee] must naturally feel most is his own insignificance. He is merely one of a huge multitude of miserable people who are all in the same box.at in the same box under box, n.1
Prisoner at the Bar 253: Juries rarely return in less time than it takes to burn a cigar.at burn, v.
Prisoner at the Bar 117: [H]earing Pat remark to a fellow officer in no uncertain tones that ‘the old guy is no good—a “dead one”—I didn’t even get a smoke off him’.at dead one, n.
Prisoner at the Bar 68: Sometimes [...] a criminal conspiracy between the complainant and the officer is disclosed to ‘do’ a mischievous, but not criminal, youth who has fallen into their disfavor.at do, v.1
Prisoner at the Bar 56: [C]harges of misdemeanors or of felonies [...] must of necessity be tried in a higher court or, as the magistrates [i.e. presiding in lower courts] say, ‘go downtown.’ .at downtown, n.
Prisoner at the Bar 165: [T]he [defendant] sits in the pen chewing the cud of narcotic contentment and wondering whether the yarn he ‘framed’ for them will be believed.at frame, v.
Prisoner at the Bar 105: ‘Aw, come on now and give us yer name,’ continues the officer. [...] ‘How do I know yer ain’t throwin’ some game into me?’ .at game, n.
Prisoner at the Bar 106: They bundle Maria unceremoniously inside, escort her erstwhile employer [...] into the same vehicle, [...] the gong rings: and Mr. Appleboy starts upon his task of bringing an evil-doer to justice.at gong, n.4
Prisoner at the Bar 148: The real ‘gun’ is apt to have his life pretty well mapped out. He anticipates serving about so much time ‘in stir’ and figures on beating about every other case.at gun, n.1
Prisoner at the Bar 187: [L]awyers retained by complainants will seek to have their cases put on the calendar of such and such a judge. ‘Put it before——,’ they will say. He’s hell on larceny!’.at hell on under hell, n.
Prisoner at the Bar 58: Many a case which on its face seems founded on justice may be shown by a little questioning on the part of the magistrate to be nothing but an attempt to ‘hold up’ or injure the defendant.at hold up, v.1
Prisoner at the Bar 106: ‘Well, the first thing you’ll do,’ remarks the officer, ‘’ll be to walk to the house. Come on, now!’ And forthwith he drags Maria to the door.at house, n.1
Prisoner at the Bar 185: [A] jelly-backed wearer of the [judge’s] gown who was afraid of the displeasure of some politician if a ‘heeler’ were convicted.at jelly-backed (adj.) under jelly, n.1
Prisoner at the Bar 56: If [...] the complainant be a man of independence and insistence, with perhaps a bit of a pull, it is much easier to ‘hold’ a defendant than to assume the responsibility of ‘turning him out’ .at turn out, v.2
Prisoner at the Bar 212: Mayhap there is upon the jury some tradesman who has ‘padded’ his own credit statement.at pad (a bill) (v.) under pad, v.2
Prisoner at the Bar 71: [A] great trial, as celebrated as those fought out in the ‘Parts’ upstairs or in the criminal trial term of the Supreme Court across the hall.at part, n.
Prisoner at the Bar 241: The judge having delivered his charge, and the jury having [...] retired to the jury-room, a court officer claps the prisoner upon the shoulder and leads him away to the prison pen.at pen, n.2
(con. mid-19C) Prisoner at the Bar 319: A ‘runner’ belonging to the system having been arrested and policy slips having been found in his possession, the reigning Policy King retained a lawyer of eminent respectability to see what could be done about it.at runner, n.
Prisoner at the Bar 72: The leaders among them [i.e. experienced police court lawyers] have skilful [sic] ‘runners’ who haunt the police courts and the corridors of the building, heralding the virtues and successes of their masters [...] and currying business in every conceivable manner.at runner, n.
Prisoner at the Bar 199: [T]wo of the perpetrators of a brutal robbery [...] received seven years apiece, while their ‘side-partner’ [...] was given five years by another judge.at side partner (n.) under side, adj.
Prisoner at the Bar 129: ‘I’m afraid she has gotten the best of us [...] The fact is that she has skipped her bail—gone back to Ireland’.at skip, v.
Prisoner at the Bar 38: It is by virtue of this salutary provision of law [i.e. the validation of police violence in arrests] that the unscrupulous policeman gets ‘square’ with his enemies of the under world.at get square (with) (v.) under square, adj.
Prisoner at the Bar 182: An inexperienced prosecutor may be so inadequate to the task of coping with some old war-horse of a lawyer that save for the assistance of the court a rascal would be turned loose upon the community.at warhorse (n.) under war, n.
Prisoner at the Bar 59: [The police court judge] knows a crooked officer, a crooked lawyer, and a crooked complainant when he sees one. Whatever the verbal testimony happens to be he may very well ‘know different.’ He is, as the slang phrase accurately puts it, ‘wise to his job’.at get wise (to) (v.) under wise, adj.
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