Adjacent to Paris, the province of Reims.
Reims District Court.
Judge Fosne listened to the prosecutor demanding the death penalty for the defendant and couldn't help but show a look of utter exhaustion on his face.
Previously, he had only presided over minor cases of theft, vandalism of public property, and the like. A case of this magnitude, involving several hundred thousand francs with the likelihood of a capital sentence, was a first in his twenty years on the bench.
To tell the truth, had it not been for cramming two all-nighters before the trial, he wouldn't even have been sure which statutes to apply to this case.
There was no choice; the sheer number of cases involving Tax Farmers had become so rampant that the High Court's schedule was entirely full, forcing even the district courts to deal with major cases now.
