:19:00
Can we find another name for them?
:19:02
I never heard my wife
call them anything else.
:19:05
- Mr. Biegler.
- I'm a bachelor, Your Honor.
:19:08
That's a great help.
Mr. Dancer?
:19:11
I was overseas during the war.
I learned a French word.
:19:16
I'm afraid that might be
slightly suggestive.
:19:18
Most French words are.
:19:20
All right, gentlemen,
back to your places.
:19:23
For the benefit of the jury, but more
especially for the spectators...
:19:28
the undergarment referred to
in the testimony was, to be exact...
:19:32
Mrs. Manion's panties.
:19:37
I wanted you to get your snickering
over and done with.
:19:41
This pair of panties will be mentioned
again in the course of this trial.
:19:45
And when it happens, there will not be
one laugh, one snicker...
:19:49
one giggle or even one smirk
in my courtroom.
:19:53
There isn't anything comic
about a pair of panties...
:19:56
which figure in the violent death
of one man...
:20:00
and the possible incarceration
of another.
:20:04
Proceed, Mr. Biegler.
:20:06
Did you give Mrs. Manion
a lie detector test?
:20:08
Objection. A polygraph test is
inadmissible evidence in our courts.
:20:11
I only asked if he gave the test.
I didn't ask the results.
:20:15
He may answer that.
:20:16
I gave her a lie detector test
at her request.
:20:19
Now after all this investigation,
did you believe Mrs. Manion?
:20:23
- I did.
- Even after the lie detector test?
:20:25
That question constitutes flagrant
subterfuge on part of the defense.
:20:31
Objection sustained.
:20:33
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,
a polygraph or lie detector test...
:20:37
is not admissible in evidence...
:20:39
because no one
has ever been quite sure...
:20:41
that some people couldn't lie
to a lie detector and get away with it.
:20:45
Go ahead.
:20:46
In any case, you yourself
in your own heart and mind...
:20:50
are quite convinced
of Mrs. Manion's honesty?
:20:53
- Yes, sir.
- That's all.
:20:57
Just a moment.