this was a
device to
bring out
at first
hand the
nature of
the
temptation
to which
you
succumbed.For
throughout
the trial
your
counsel
was in
reality
making an
appeal for
mercy.The
setting up
of this
defence of
course
enabled
him to put
in some
evidence
that might
weigh in
that
direction.Whether
he was
well
advised to
so is
another
matter.He
claimed
that you
should be
treated
rather as
a patient
than as a
criminal.And
this plea
of
his,which
in the end
