Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seated on the woolsack in his best robes and formal full-bottomed wig, Douglas McGarel Hogg, Viscount Hailsham and Lord High Chancellor, commanded Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley, Clerk of the Parliaments, to call the roll. About 100 of the realm's approximate total of 860 peers had arrived, this making an unusually large House of Lords...
Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip clipped out a dry, unemotional prosecutor's speech for the Crown: ". . . The police constable found the defendant's Lancia car near the middle of the road, and, like the deceased's Frazer-Nash, it was badly damaged. ... I shall submit that, if your Lordships' defendant was driving in a reckless, careless, negligent manner on this occasion and by so driving caused the death of Douglas George Hopkins, your Lordships should find him guilty of the offense of manslaughter...
Defending Lord de Clifford, Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett recalled that the defendant had admitted to police that he was driving on the wrong side or middle of the road, saying he had done so because the other car was approaching at tremendous speed and in his judgment that was the way to minimize or avoid an accident. "In the agony of the moment, just before the collision," cried Sir Henry, "he did as he thought best...
This was the entire defense. All witnesses called were for the Crown. Then Sir Henry, for the defense, moved that the Crown had made out "no case...
After their Lordships had taken time out for luncheon, the Voice from the Dais informed them that the advisory judges shared Sir Henry's opinion. Cried the Voice from the Dais: "Is the prisoner guilty of the felony of which he stands indicted...