It's all right with me. Anyone doesn't want to vote?
I think we ought to have an open ballot. Call out your votes, y'know. Let's see who stands where.
Number Three?
Guilty.
It musta been connected to the light switch.
Some rain, huh? Well, what dy'a think of this thing? It's even steven. Kind of surprising, isn't it?
Yes.
Listen, that business before, you know, where that guy was baiting me. I mean, that doesn't prove anything. Listen, I'm a very excitable person, y'know. So where does he get off to call me a public avenger and a sadist and everything? Anybody in their rig
He did an excellent job. Excuse me.
OK, maybe he did. I told you, I can't help that kind of thing. I'm a certain type of person, I get moved by this. But let me tell you, I'm sincere.
Six to six? It's a joke.
What are we gonna do about it? Can't we break it somehow?
Logic! Holy cow!
Now, just you listen to this man. He's the only one in the room who knows...
I think we should just quit.
What the hell are you talking about?
What am I gonna do, break my brains over scum like that?
Well, that's the most ridiculous thing I ever... You took an oath in the courtroom. You can't just quit.
Why not?
It's dishonest. What don't you vote "not guilty"?
I voted guilty because I think he's guilty.
But now you don't care what happens?
How about him? Is that something?
A hung jury doesn't mean anything. They just have to start the trial with another jury. That's not what we're here for.
Well, there was this whole business about the stab wound and how it was made, the downward angle of it, you know?
Don't tell me we're gonna start with that. They went over it and over it.
It's a very awkward thing to stab down into the chest of someone who's more than half a foot taller than you are.
Give me that. Look, you're not gonna be satisfied till you see it again. I'm gonna give you a demonstration. somebody get up. OK. Now watch this. I don't want to have to do it again. I'm six or seven inches shorter than you. Right?
That's right, maybe a little more.
OK. Let it be more.
What's the matter with you?
Now just calm down. Nobody's hurt, right?
No. Nobody's hurt.
All right. There's your angle. Take a look at it. Down and in. That's how I'd stab a taller man in the chest and that's how it was done. Now go ahead and tell me I'm wrong.
He'd go for him underhanded.
How do you know? What, were you in the room when the father was killed?
No, and neither was anyone else.
You're giving a us a lot of mumbo jumbo here. I don't believe it.
I don't think you can determine what type of wound this boy might or might not have made simply because he knows how to handle a knife.
That's right. That's absolutely right.
Well, I don't know...
What dy'a mean, you don't know?
I'm changing my vote to "not guilty.
You're what?
You heard me. I've had enough.
What d'you mean, you've had enough? That's no answer.
One: the evidence given by the woman across the street who actually saw the murder committed.
And how, brother! As far as I'm concerned that's the most important testimony in the whole case.
She saw him do it- the wrong way.
That's right! That's absolutely right!
As far as I can see, this is unshakeable testimony.
That's what I mean. That's the whole case.
Well, it's not so easy to arrange the evidence in order.
You can throw out all the other evidence. The woman saw him do it. What else do you want?
Well, maybe...
Let's vote on it.
I'm changing my vote. I think he's "guilty.
Anybody else? The vote is eight to four.
What makes you consider this one vote a personal triumph?
I'm the competitive type. Okay, now here's what I think. I think we're a hung jury. Let's take it inside to the judge.
You didn't want a hung jury before.
Well, I want it now.
I don't understand that. You thought it was immoral-
I don't anymore. There are people in here who are so damned stubborn that you can't even... We'll never get this thing done. We'll be here for a week. Well, I want to hear an argument. I say we're a hung jury. Come on, you're the leader of the cause. What
Let's go over it again.
We went over it again. J. Walter Thompson over there is bouncing backward and forward like a tennis ball.
Wait a second. You have no right to...
I apologize on my knees. Come on, let's get out from under this thing.
All right, maybe we can talk about setting some kind of time limit. The time is...
Quarter after six.
I was wondering why you were rubbing your nose like that?
Ah, come on now, will ya please?
No eyeglasses. See if you can get a mental picture of her.
What dy'a mean, no glasses? You don't know if she wore glasses. Just because she was rubbing her nose...
She has those marks. I saw 'em.
So what? What dy'a think that means?
She had those deep things, what dy'a call 'em, uh- you know...
Well, what point are you making here?
She had those marks.
She had dyed hair and marks on her nose. I'm asking ya what does that mean?
No. They couldn't.
Listen, what are you saying here? I didn't see any marks.
I did. Strange, but I didn't think about it before.
Well, what about the lawyer? Why didn't he say anything?
There are twelve people in here concentrating on this case. Eleven of us didn't think of it either.
OK, Clarrence Darrow. Then what about the district attorney? You think he'd try to pull a trick like that, have her testify without glasses?
Yeah, that's what I was just gonna say.
K. She had marks on her nose. I'm givin ya this. From glasses. Right? She never wore 'em out of the house so people would think she was gorgeous. But when she saw this kid ill his father she was in the house. Alone. That's all.
It's logical to say that she wasn't wearing them while she was in bed, tossing and turning, trying to fall asleep.
How do you know?
She couldn't have had time to put glasses on then.
Wait a second!
I say that she saw only a blur.
How do you know what she saw? how does he know all these things? You don't know what kind of glasses she wore. Maybe she was farsighted. Maybe they were sunglasses. What do you know about it?
You can't send someone off to die on evidence like that.
Don't give me that!
Do't you think that the woman might have made a mistake?
No!
It's not possible?
No! It's not possible.
Not guilty". Do whatever you want.
You're the worst son of a... I think he's guilty.
No, I'm convinced.
What's the matter with you?
It's eleven to one.
Well, what about all the other evidence? What about all that stuff- the knife- the whole business?
You're alone.
I don't care whether I'm alone or not. It's my right.
It's your right.
Well, what dy'a want? I say he's guilty.
We want your arguments.
I gave you my arguments.
We have as much time as it takes.
Everything- every single thing that came out in that courtroom, but I mean everything, says he's guilty. Do you think I'm an idiot or something? You lousy bunch of bleeding hearts. You're not gonna intimidate me. I'm entitled to my opinion. I can sit in t
Let him live.
Alright. Not guilty.