# Judge Murphy — Poetry character guide

> Judge Murphy in Poetry by Ambrose Bierce.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0000-poetry

## Who they are

Judge Murphy, whose judicial gravity Bierce enlists to expose the gap between the law's solemnity and the folly it presides over.

## In the story

### [The Legatee](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/poetry_se/chapters/the-legatee)

Presides over the case of the contested will, sedate and serene, ultimately takes the property for himself.

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