Do you consider denis as a malefactor?
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A Malefactor is a very short story written by Anton Chekov. Denis Grigoryev, an “ exceedingly lean little peasant in a striped hempen shirt and patched drawers” is brought before the magistrate to stand trial. His crime is that Ivan Semyonovich Akinfov, a railway watchman, saw him engaged in removing a fastening nut from the railway line. The description given by Denis Chekov is of a poor man, hardly presentable, who occasionally removes nuts from the railway line to put them into the weight used in the fishing line. The poor peasant is innocent to the point of accepting the ‘crime’ unmindful of the repercussions, and the reader is amused to go through the Q&A sequence between the accused and the magistrate. In common case law, the admission of a crime by an accused is ground enough to order his punishment under the Law of the Land, without requiring any detailed procedure to be followed, but in this case, the court appears to be incomplete. After a brief summary of the proceedings, Denis is sent to prison as a punishment, although there are other accomplices named after him. As a result, no argument or plea made by him prevails.