Hit-and-Run Driver (1935)

Sam Flint: Judge

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• [last lines] 

  Judge : George Lambert, before passing sentence upon you, the court has taken into full account your side of this case, and I regret to say I can find no extenuating circumstances. Accidents are sometimes unavoidable. An accident due to drunken recklessness is bad enough, but nothing can exceed the horror of hit-and-run driving. You tried to frame an alibi and failed. Now you say you are sorry, but you penitence cannot bring life to David Benedict or eyesight to Eleanor Spears. The magnitude of your crime and the havoc caused by your criminal neglect leave me no alternative. George Lambert, this court sentences you ...

  [scene changes to Captain James's office] 

  Captain James : The judge said twenty years, but George Lambert was not so lenient with himself. In his heart he knew he had committed murder, and the indelible memory of what he'd done to that boy and girl will remain with him for the rest of his life.