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was found against him by the grand jury on the 24th; and, as the case was put down for trial at the Old Bailey almost immediately, a postponement was asked for till the May sessions, on the ground first that the defence had not had time to prepare their case and further, that in the state of popular feeling at the moment, Mr. Wilde would not get a fair and impartial trial. Mr. Justice Charles, who was to try the case, heard the application and refused it peremptorily:
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Any suggestion that the defendant would not have a fair trial was groundless, he declared; yet he knew better. In his summing up of the case on May 1st he stated that
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and when he asked the jury not to allow