How so? If twelve (of the twenty-three judges) acquit and eleven incriminate, he is acquitted. If thirteen incriminate and ten acquit, he is incriminated. But perhaps if eleven acquit and twelve incriminate he is incriminated? It is, therefore, written (Ibid.) "Do not speak (solitarily) in a quarrel" — Scripture states: Kill by witnesses; kill by incliners — Just as witnesses, (a minimum of) two, so, incliners, two (and not one).