[20]
The view
of the majority of writers1 on this subject will,
however, hold good in most cases. Some have evaded
these problems by saying that a basis is that which
emerges from affirmations and denials, such as “You
did it,” “I did not do it,” or “I was justified in
doing it.”
1 i.e. that the defendant makes the basis or status. See § 13.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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