The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)

Leslie Fenton: Jim Perrin

Quotes 

• Perrin : Those old fluffs are a million years behind the times! They're still writing with quill pens.

• Perrin : Hi Boo-ful!

  Maizie Dickson : Boo-ful's looking for Bob Parks and Boo-ful's getting a trifle annoyed.

  Perrin : Bob just went out to get a bite to eat.

  Jigger Bolton : Yeah, just a little while ago.

  Maizie Dickson : Would it be any violation of your professional ethics to tell me whether or not the bite to eat looked - appetizing?

  Perrin : Sure shot Mazie they calls her.

  Jigger Bolton : Well, if you ask me, I wouldn't mind sitting down to a - dish of it.

• Perrin : You mean to say you're yap enough to swallow that baloney about a burglar coming in, tying her and stealing her ring?

• Perrin : Oh, there's a smart dame! She thinks you're just a little hick court she can play leapfrog with and make you like it! She and her boyfriend Brooks are giving you the horse laugh right now!

• Perrin : You know, that little county attorney buzzard asked me to write his speech to the jury for him.

  Bob Parks : No.

  Jigger Bolton : Yeah, I bet that'll be a blood thristy masterpiece.

  Perrin : You're gonna have 'em howlin' like a wolf.

• Bob Parks : Say, how long since a woman was executed in this state?

  Perrin : Last one was in - eh - 1897.

  Bob Parks : Better get 'em a story on it and I'll use it as a shirt tail with my story of the verdict.