side-wind

Updated: May 3, 2025

In those days at sessions they were not so nice in the observances of mere forms as they are now, and you could sometimes get in something that was not exactly evidence, strictly speaking, in favour of a prisoner by a side-wind, as it were, although it was not the correct thing to do.

Baron Henry Hawkins Brampton - The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)