seven o'clock
I beseech you to do him that justice , which can now only be done by the strong expression of your unanimous assurance of absolute innocence . I beseech you to reject from your minds those pre-conceived opinions so injurious to the prisoner , with which the present unfortunate state of your country may so naturally have influenced you , and to remember that it is your duty , as jurors , to confine yourself to the individual case before you ; and that the doctrine laid down by my learned friend , that you should make an example in one case for the sake of prevention of crimes in others , is most unconstitutional , and would imply , that whilst the solemn oath you have taken is still vibrating in your ears , your object should be far wide from that for which you have been assembled -- that of making a fair and true trial between your sovereign and the prisoner . I shall now call a few witnesses , and then leave the case , with confidence , in your hands . '' When Mr. O'Malley had finished his address to the jury , it was past seven o'clock , and the judge suggested that as it would be evidently impracticable to finish the case that night , so as to release the jury , they might as well at this point adjourn it till the morrow . To this Mr. Allewinde readily assented ; but Mr. O'Malley declared that though he was most unwilling to detain his lordship and the court at that late hour , he must request permission to be allowed to examine one of his witnesses , as otherwise his caution in having had him ordered out of court , would have been in vain . It was most essential , he said , that his examination of Mr. Keegan should take place before that man could have an opportunity of conversing with his servant , Brady ; whereupon the judge consented to hearing Keegan 's evidence that evening , and forthwith the name of Hyacinth Keegan was called out in a loud voice by the crier , and was repeated by every policeman in court , till a stranger to the proceedings would have thought that Hyacinth Keegan 's society was the one thing desirable in Carrick-on-Shannon . It would be drawing this trial out to a weary length to give the whole of his evidence ; but Mr. O'Malley 's questions were such as the attorney found it almost impossible to answer .