Not Guilty--But return the horse

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, A. Maberry wrote:

> Hmmm, when I first heard this it involved a Welshman and a Welsh jury, not
> the US frontier. It might just be one of those fill-in-the-blanks stories
> with an infinite variety of locales and things stolen.

Yes, this is an old joke-book staple.  Marc Galanter's forthcoming
historical dictionary of lawyer jokes will probably cover it.

Fred Shapiro


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