The issue focused on the power of the court to order a person to help the police. The case of the two men, who have not been named, was about the use of a police stop-and-search to question a man. The first had an alibi, the second a story. The first was an old man, the second a young man. The first was a man of his years, the second a man of his class. The first was a man of his money, the second a man