- Terry Larue: [about Garrett] How much do you know about that guy?
- Dolly Moore: He's the best score I've made in a long time.
- Austin Spencer: [to Garrett] You get engaged to my daughter, and all you can think about is capital punishment?
- Dolly Moore: [about Garrett] This guy's got a lot of class.
- Terry Larue: Yeah? If he's got so much class, what's he doin' with you?
- Tom Garrett: What about the risks?
- Austin Spencer: There wouldn't be any. Of course you might be acquitted. But if we're lucky, you'll get the chair.
- Dist. Atty. Roy Thompson: Whatever happens in this case has got to be based on facts and the law, not on how people feel.
- Bob Hale: Yeah, that might be. But it might also be that you're hanging yourself politically. You could end up as popular as poison ivy at a picnic!