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Updated: June 29, 2025
An observer, looking over these compact lines of faces and noting the uniform concentration of eagerness they exhibited, might have guessed that they were watching for either the jury's verdict in some peculiarly absorbing criminal trial, or the announcement of the lucky numbers in a great lottery.
"One more lie," he said, violently, "to a jury's credit!" Newbury looked up. It was astonishing what a mask he could make of his face, normally so charged over-charged with expression. "What else could it have been? But this is no time or place for us to discuss our differences, Coryston " "Why not!" cried Coryston, who had turned a dead white.
Third, a trial which lasts for a long time naturally results in creating in the jury's mind an exaggerated idea of the prisoner's rights, namely, the presumption of innocence and the benefit of the reasonable doubt. For every time that the jury will hear these phrases once in a petty larceny or forgery case, they will hear them in a lengthy murder trial a hundred times.
Of course, she was tired and that made a difference; but I did not find it easy to feel sympathetic, and I thought she was hardly the woman to win a jury's verdict on the strength of personal appeal. Nevertheless, with all the odds against her, she accomplished that morning what I had never done, or seen done, although many have attempted it and failed.
Queer sea plants grew in the ruts, the little white sea-campions with their fat seed-boxes filled the furrows of the road as with a foam it seemed a pity and a shame to crush them, and one could tell by their fresh growth how long it was since wheels had passed that way. At Jury's Gap, a long white-daubed coastguard station marked the end of the road. Only a foot-track ran out to the Ness.
"Then the dean must not take your resignation. Speaking to you frankly, I tell you that there is no prevailing opinion as to the verdict which the jury may give." "My decision has nothing to do with the jury's verdict. My decision " "Stop a moment, Mr Crawley. It is possible that you might say that which should not be said."
"Oh, about that inquest, Sergeant," he queried casually, "what was the jury's finding? I was forgetting all about that." "Eyah; on'y fwhat yuh might expect," replied the latter. "Death by shootin', at th' hand av some person unknown. I wired headquarthers right-away." He made a slightly impatient movement. "Well, we must get busy, Mr. Gully; this shtiff connot be far away.
For in this opening address of his there must be no flaw, since a single misstated or overstated fact may prejudice the jury against him and result in his defeat. Upon it also depends the jury's first impression of the case and of the prosecutor himself no inconsiderable factor in the result.
He told them that it was very doubtful whether it was a case of murder or suicide; that the jury's verdict was not in accordance with the directions of the Coroner, but just a piece of natural, pig-headed stupidity. This produced another bitter outcry from Douglas about the loss of his afternoon. Mr.
'Here is the photograph, and here the letter which you gave me to post, and which, had it been sent, might have cleared the mystery sooner. He had made his confession, and he stood before her with clasped hands and an expression upon his face such as a criminal might wear when awaiting the jury's decision.
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