According to you, no one would ever prosecute.
"I shouldn't be surprised if he was tempted."--"Life's one long
temptation...."
But is a man to be lost because he is bred and born with a weak
character? Gentlemen, men like the prisoner are destroyed daily under
our law for want of that human insight which sees them as they are,
patients, and not criminals. If the prisoner be found guilty, and
treated as though he were a criminal type, he will, as all experience
shows, in all probability become one.