"By this time I was becoming wrathful myself, for I had explained my position.
But I choked my ire and held my peace,
and the judge squalled that I had shown contempt for the court
and that I should be hurled into a dungeon to rot until I betrayed my friend.
So then, seeing they were all mad, I drew my sword and cleft the judge's skull;
then I cut my way out of the court."

"Queen of the Black Coast" -Robert E. Howard