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If not , then the difficulty in your minds is easy to explain . `` That is the first point . Now for the second . What you urge , and most rightly urge , too -- and I fully appreciate the evident thought and care which you have bestowed upon it -- is the unlikelihood of the prisoner going out at midnight to commit murder , when he had no knowledge whatever that the murdered man would not be in his own home . You say that some of you feel that his going out under such circumstances , and depending on chance as to whether he should meet him , was altogether unnatural . I will admit that you have to consider this point carefully , remembering that a man 's life or death depends upon the decision at which you arrive . But there is another thought which you must keep clearly before your minds .