Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)

William 'Billy' Benedict: Whitey

Quotes 

• Sach : Ehh, you don't know nothing about detecting.

  Slip Mahoney : Oh, I don't? I just happen to know ALL about it, dat's all. Let's take a hypothetical case. There's a moider, you understand? So you go out and grab up a few exhibits, then you go out and get the murderer and the moiderer gets a lawyer. Lawyer brings in a writ of habius corpus and sets the moiderer free, but then you drag in your corpus delecti. Dat's your ace in the hole, so you get your murderer up back again for a retrial. He brings his lawyer wid him and you call in a grand jury, see, and they examine him and the lawyer objects, then they cross-examine him and the lawyer objects, then they indite him and the lawyer objects, so then they hang him.

  Whitey : Gee, he knows detectin' real good, huh?

  Sach : Yeah, I thought i stumped him for a minute.