context: The penalty for an offence was determined according to two factors: The local magistrate acted as examiner and sometimes as investigator, but his final role in legal cases was to determine the proper penalty for the offense that had been committed: he had to fix the nature of the offense as defined by the code, and to increase or reduce the associated penalty depending on the social relation between offender and victim.
source: While questioning a witness, the magistrate would look closely for five kinds of behavior: the person's statements, expression, breathing, reaction to the words of the judge, and eyes.
reference_original: Bei der Befragung eines Zeugen, achtet der Richter auf fünf Aspekte im Verhalten: die Aussage der Person, ihre Mimik, ihre Atmung, ihre Reaktion auf die Worte des Richters und ihre Augen.
reference_flipped: Bei der Befragung eines Zeugen, achtet die Richterin auf fünf Aspekte im Verhalten: die Aussage der Person, ihre Mimik, ihre Atmung, ihre Reaktion auf die Worte des Richters und ihre Augen.