Alibis not always the best defence (story by Henry Cecil)
"Alibi for a Judge!" by Henry Cecil, published 1960.
"...that is the trouble with alibis. They are at the same time the best and worst defences. They are the best because, if you weren't there when the man was murdered, you couldn't have murdered him. They are the worst because, once you raise an alibi, no other defence is usually open to you. In the case of murder, for example, you can't rely on self-defence, accident or extreme provocation. You say you weren't there, so you can't have been provoked; you can't have been threatened by the man and picked up a weapon with which to defend yourself; he can't have slipped on a piece of orange skin and fallen accidentally on to the knife with which you were peeling the orange..."
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