"And now," Hamilton Burger said, "I'll call my main witness. Mr. Perry Mason take the stand, please." Mason walked forward, held up his hand, took the oath and seated himself. "It's a most unusual procedure," Judge Lennox said, "to ask an attorney for the defendants to give testimony which might help convict them. But Mr. Mason's position seems to be legally sound. And the Court feels that he is fully capable of looking after his own as well as his clients' interest. We seem to be making judicial history." And so they were, in one of Erle Stanley Gardner's most fascinating books.
