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 that the person previously identified by her was in jail on April 15, 1920. (M. R. 180.)

2. Devlin, a little over a month after the murders, thus testified:—

At the trial, over a year later, she had no doubt, and when asked: 'Have you at any time had any doubt of your identification of this man?" (R. 276) replied: "No." The obvious discrepancy of an identification reaching certainty by lapse of time, without any additional opportunity for verification, she explained thus:—