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"Gentlemen of the Jury," said the Judge, "Notwithstanding what has occurred, it becomes our duty to proceed to an orderly determination of this case. If you believe the testimony of the last witness, then, of course, the crime charged has not been committed, the respondent is not guilty, and he is entitled to your verdict.
Again, the most popular drama, the most popular novel, are those to which the dénouements can not easily be guessed; and in the court-house we see drama and novel realized with the verdict of the jury and the sentence of the judge a matter of anxious speculation to the very last.
The jury awarded him $2,500, which amount the court reduced to $300, Justice P.H. Dugro saying that a Negro when falsely imprisoned did not suffer the same amount of injury that a white man would suffer an opinion which the New York Age very naturally characterized as "one of the basest and most offensive ever handed down by a New York judge."
It might be said that in such cases the chance of a jury finding for the defendant is merely a chance, once in a while rather arbitrarily interrupting the regular course of recovery, most likely in the case of an unusually conscientious plaintiff, and therefore better done away with.
When twelve of these professors are put in a box, it is called a jury. When one of these professors is put in a box by himself, he is called a witness.
You done a bit in Joliet for getting into a house the same way as you got in in Yonkers and as you got in Miller's Folly. All you got to do, Boyle, is prove sure you're right about the law, Boyle, about us having to prove it, you're right about that. "But just picture the jury, Boyle. The jury don't know as much law as you do. We'll give the jury your record, see?
"Yes, I must tell her," he thought; "no hiding; everybody must be told." "A very strange and important thing happened to me yesterday. Do you remember my Aunt Mary Ivanovna's Katusha?" "Oh, yes. Why, I taught her how to sew." "Well, this Katusha was tried in the Court and I was on the jury." "Oh, Lord! What a pity!" cried Agraphena Petrovna. "What was she being tried for?"
This is a very fair specimen of his lordship's manners. Unfortunately, it is also a fair specimen of his lordship's law. When I read similar extracts in the Court of Queen's Bench, Lord Coleridge never interrupted me once; nay, he told the jury that I had very properly brought those passages before their notice, that I had a perfect right to do so, and that it was a legitimate part of my defence.
"Sartain, sartain," answered poor Solomon, tremulously. It was already late, and when the grand jury had formally dismissed the complaint against Jim, the hour was so advanced that adjournment was taken for the day. When Mr. Peaslee left the court house no one spoke to him, and he walked slowly home, full of the worst forebodings. Why had he put in that marble?
"I don't see why," one of the bystanders observed. "He got Hilditch off all right. One of the finest addresses to a jury I ever heard."
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