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Justice Wills took the matter up as well. "You can hardly call it a disagreement, Sir Edward," though what else he could call it, I was at a loss to imagine. He then adjourned the case against Oscar Wilde till the next day, when a different jury would be impanelled.
"Judge Hunt," commented the Sun, "allowed the jury to be impanelled and sworn, and to hear the evidence; but when the case had reached the point of rendering the verdict, he directed a verdict of guilty.
That jurors ought to be duly impanelled and returned, and jurors which pass upon men in trials for high treason ought to be freeholders. That all grants and promises of fines and forfeitures of particular persons before conviction are illegal and void. And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, Parliament ought to be held frequently.
No-Good, Mr. Malice, Mr. Love-Lust, Mr. Live-Loose, Mr. Heady, Mr. Hate-Light, Mr. Enmity, Mr. Liar, Mr. Cruelty, and Mr. Implacable, with Mr. Blindman for Foreman. Never was such an infamous gang impanelled.
Come, prepare. Merchant of Venice. It is by no means my intention to describe minutely the forms of a Scottish criminal trial, nor am I sure that I could draw up an account so intelligible and accurate as to abide the criticism of the gentlemen of the long robe. It is enough to say that the jury was impanelled, and the case proceeded.
The usual ceremonial went forward: the jury were impanelled, and the clerk of the Crown read aloud the indictment, to which my plea of "Not guilty" was at once recorded; then the judge asked if I were provided with counsel, and hearing that I was not, appointed a junior barrister to act for me, and the trial began.
Louis; and public opinion has to this day maintained upon the bench that estimable judge who charged the jury, impanelled there to try his murderers, that their most horrid deed was an act of public opinion, and being so, must not be punished by the laws the public sentiment had made.
Consequently three cousins of the prisoner were impanelled, the jury disagreed, and the wretch bolted to America that same night. The second man, though less guilty, was duly tried before a challenged jury, and not only sentenced but hanged. He was the organiser of outrages for Cork, and his brother held the similar delectable office for Kerry.
To 'cide this title is impanelled A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the Heart, And by their verdict is determined The clear Eye's moiety, and the dear Heart's part; As thus: Mine Eye's due is thine outward part, And my Heart's right, thine inward love of heart."
Justice Wills took the matter up as well. "You can hardly call it a disagreement, Sir Edward," though what else he could call it, I was at a loss to imagine. He then adjourned the case against Oscar Wilde till the next day, when a different jury would be impanelled.
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