In jail he meets the tramp to whom he had sold his company, and bribes him to give favourable evidence.

This came as a favourable evidence together with other papers of this kind found during the inspection of foreign consulates early in the war.

Also, some investigations clearly lacked objectivity: adverse information was accepted at face value while favourable evidence was discounted.

Jordan, an art lecturer, also alleges that a police officer involved in the case offered to give favourable evidence in court if he became an informer.

Company lawyer David Mills, 65, was convicted last year of accepting a £350,000 bribe in return for giving favourable evidence at two corruption trials involving the Italian prime minister.

Since it is impossible to determine the likelihood of a mine for a given mineral occurrence, the scale is structured to measure the sum of the favourable evidence as an indicator of the potential.

It appeared that in order to get rid of their favourable evidence, the ceased witch-doctor, Imbozwi, who for some reason or other had feared to kill them, caused them to be marched off to a distant part of the land where they were imprisoned.

Italy's highest court dismissed the bribery case against Mr Mills, 65, who had earlier been found guilty of accepting a £$600,000 (£370,000) from Silvio Berlusconi in return for giving favourable evidence for the Italian Prime Minister at two previous corruption trials.

Ramage had been waiting for this moment: so far the trial seemed to be going his way: he'd bluffed Croucher into leaving Gianna's speech in the trial minutes; thwarted his attempt to drop the whole case once the interruption was made; and the Bosun and Carpenter's Mate had given favourable evidence.