noon
But it all went for naught with that jury . It was facts , not sentiment , they wanted . All this might be true , but if Job Malden had done the awful deed which the evidence went to show , then these things only made his crime the blacker . The defense finished at noon , and the lawyers began their pleas at one o'clock . They hardly needed to speak -- Grizzly county had tried the case and the verdict was in . Yet they spoke . How eloquently the prosecuting attorney showed the influence of heredity -- that the evil in the father would show itself some day in the boy !