All that I could remember for sure was that there was a judge, that verdicts were handed down, and that the words “Messire” and “Guilty” appeared in the story. So I tried the obvious Google search and the sixth hit gave me the full text of the story (The Executioner, by Algis Budris).
And of course, there are other wonderful secrets on the Web, too, such as the secret of desktop fusion, as discovered at my Alma Mater. Let’s Go Red!