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"Just so nothing!" agreed the Duke and stepped down again. It was at this stage that the Coroner sent the jurymen away in charge of his officer to make a careful personal inspection of the gallery in the clerestory.
So surprised and frightened were the jurymen by this unexpected consequence of their verdict, that they obstinately acquitted, in the face of the most convincing evidence, all the other prisoners brought before them. The most famous case of acquital when there was no conceivable doubt as to the guilt of the accused was that of Vera Zasulitch, who shot General Trepof, Prefect of St.
He had spent two and a half hours in the adjacent Coroner's Court, listening to all that was said in evidence about the death of Jacob Herapath, and he had heard absolutely nothing that was not quite well known to him when the Coroner took his seat, inspected his jurymen, and opened the inquiry.
And at that point the Doctor came back, leading Bob, to the seat beside me. "What have the jurymen gone out for?" I asked. "They always do that at the end of a trial to make up their minds whether the prisoner did it or not." "Couldn't you and Bob go in with them and help them make up their minds the right way?" I asked. "No, that's not allowed. They have to talk it over in secret.
'That's the witness-box, my dear sir, replied Perker, disinterring a quantity of papers from the blue bag, which Lowten had just deposited at his feet. 'And that, said Mr. Pickwick, pointing to a couple of enclosed seats on his right, 'that's where the jurymen sit, is it not? 'The identical place, my dear Sir, replied Perker, tapping the lid of his snuff-box. Mr.
Afterwards when the judge finds that there are enough jurymen in court for the needs of the calendar, he may privately send word to the juryman by a court attendant that he is excused for the term or for a few days until the Christmas rush is over or his wife is better.
As to her being guilty as to her being found guilty by any twelve jurymen in England, no such idea ever entered his head. I have said that many people had begun to suspect; but no such suspicions had reached his ears. What man, unless it should be Dockwrath, would whisper to the son the possibility of his mother's guilt?
In criminal procedure presumably all capital causes, and in civil procedure those more difficult cases which presumed an independent action on the part of the directing magistrate, were reserved for the authorities and jurymen of the capital, and the Italian municipal courts were restricted to the minor and less complicated lawsuits, or to those which were very urgent. Rise of the -Municipium-
It was, it is said, this shocking situation, one perfectly appreciated by a discerning jury, which won the prisoner a verdict softened by the extenuating circumstances. The jurymen said to themselves: "For a wife to murder her husband for these conjugal offences, is certainly going rather far; but then a woman is very excusable, when she is so harassed!"
The latter doubtless, in the event of his being unable personally to lead the army or to decide a legal dispute, took his deputies at all times from the senate; for which reason subsequently the highest posts of command were regularly bestowed on senators alone, and senators were likewise employed by preference as jurymen.
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