Brewer's: Prisoner at the Bar

The prisoner in the dock, who is on his trial; so called because anciently he stood at the bar which separated the barristers from the common pleaders.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Prisoner of Chillon:
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