Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.
Richard HughesAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: british
- Born: April 19, 1900
- Died: April 28, 1976
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