The arm was guilty


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DATE: Dec. 27, 2013, 3:22 p.m.

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  1. The arm was guilty
  2. A man was brought before the judge. The witness said that the day before the prisoner had stolen some pears from a basket, outside a grocer’s. The solicitor said to the judge:
  3. “It is true that the prisoner took a few pears with his right arm; his right arm is guilty, but not he himself; you can not punish the whole body because one of its limbs is guilty.”
  4. “You are quite right,” answered the judge, “ so I sentence the prisoner’s right arm to six days. Now the prisoner will go to prison with his arm if he likes.”
  5. Everybody at court began to laugh; but people laughed still more when they saw the prisoner unscrew his right arm (it was a wooden arm) He then gave it to the judge, saying: “Here is my guilty arm, Sir I don’t wish to go to prison with it.”

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