The cases of wrong conclusions as to handwriting have been as numerous as those of mistaken identity of person, and have had as tragic consequences.
This case, as you say, is one of mistaken identity.
And Cyril knew he was safe in Gilbert Gildersleeve's hands: the greatest criminal lawyer of the day in England might surely be trusted to set right such a mere little error of mistaken identity.
What she said gave only a presumption of mistaken identity, but didn't at all invalidate the positive identification of all the people who had seen the supposed murderer.
To Cyril Waring himself, the arrest at Dover came as an immense surprise; rather a surprise, indeed, than a shock just at first, for he could only treat it as a mistaken identity.
In farce--particularly in the old farces which depended on mistaken identity, a motive force considered hardly worthy of use today--the comedy arises very rarely from a witty saying in itself.
But no jury would accept this as anything but a case of mistaken identity, natural in a short-sighted man's vague experiences.
It was enough that we were asked to accept the theory of a mistaken identity once; but the same demand is renewed again.
Papias has something to tell us of this Gospel also; but here again we are asked to believe that we have a case of mistaken identity.
I may be asked indeed to explain how, on this theory of mistaken identity which I here put forward, the work reviewed by the critics came to be displaced by the work before me, so that no traces of the original remain.
Our own criminal records abound with cases of disputed or mistaken identity.
It is stated that the accused, who observed a rigid silence during yesterday's proceedings, will, on his trial, set up the extraordinary defense of mistaken identity.
Cronin by the party who stated he saw him in Toronto last Saturday was by no means complete; in fact, I think there are the best of reasons for supposing it to have been a case of mistaken identity.
It was equally certain that it could not have been a case of mistaken identity--not merely because Long's acquaintance with Dr.
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