I worked to live and to make a living for my own; as long as neither myself nor my own suffered too much, I remained that which you call honest. Then work got scarce and with unemployment came hunger. It was then that that great law of nature, that imperious voice that allows no retort: the instinct of survival, pushed me to commit some of the crimes and offences that you accuse me of and that I recognise being the author of.


Trial statement


I worked to live and to make a living for my own; as long as neither myself nor my own suffered too much, I remained that which you call honest. Then ...

I worked to live and to make a living for my own; as long as neither myself nor my own suffered too much, I remained that which you call honest. Then ...

I worked to live and to make a living for my own; as long as neither myself nor my own suffered too much, I remained that which you call honest. Then ...

I worked to live and to make a living for my own; as long as neither myself nor my own suffered too much, I remained that which you call honest. Then ...