Word: donal
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Across the river, in front of the Palais de Justice, a dense crowd waited in the cold for the scraps of news flung to them ever and anon by devious persons. Inside, Maitre Donal Guigue, Public Prosecutor, demanded the death sentence. Nobody had the right to kill, he said. But his heart was not behind his words; he was reciting a mere formality. To Maitre Henri Robert, defending lawyer, he confided: "I envy you your job. Would I were standing in your place. This case is one in which the Public Prosecutor's role is not that of a sympathetic...