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                        A QUESTION OF IDENTITY

                            BY FRANK RILEY

                     _What is a Man?... A paradox
                   indeed--the world's finest minds
                 gathered to defend a punk killer...._

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
               Worlds of If Science Fiction, April 1958.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


Every pair of eyes in the hushed courtroom watched Jake Emspak walk
slowly toward the prospective juror.

Around the Earth, and above it, too, from South Africa and Franz Joseph
Land to the satellite stations adrift through the black morning, two
hundred million pairs of eyes focussed on the gaunt figure that moved
so deliberately across the television screen.

In the glass-fronted TV b