 It should be possible for the prosecution to directly examine an accused..." Melford Stevenson was previously criticised in the Court of Appeal for directing in 1964 that a jury might draw an inference of guilt from a defendant's silence in another case.The only detailed account published before the deaths of all but Melford Stevenson by someone who had attended the Adams trial and witnessed the demeanor of the participants was by Sybille Bedford.Her narrative account of the trial includes a verbatim record of the important speeches and verbal exchanges.