semicrooks

Updated: May 31, 2025

"That you recommend the acceptance of a plea of manslaughter in the second degree." Deputy Assistant District Attorney William Montague Pepperill drew himself up haughtily. He regarded all criminal practitioners as semicrooks, ignorant, illiterate, rather dirty men not in the real American class. "I can do nothing of the kind," he answered sternly and very distinctly.

Arthur Cheney Train - By Advice of Counsel