The usual character of human testimony

The usual character of human testimony is substantial truth under circumstantial variety. This is what the daily experiences of courts of justice teaches. When accounts of a transaction come from the mouths of different witnesses, it is seldom that it is not possible to pick out apparent or real inconsistencies between them. These inconsistencies are studiously displayed by an adverse pleader, but oftentimes with little impression upon the minds of the judges.

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