Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 29, 2025
My lord, we bring it to show the suspicious carriage of the prisoner immediately after the disappearance of the murdered person: and we ask the jury's consideration of that; and also to the matter of the voice heard without the house.
Then it occurred to him that perhaps he might get possession of the boy, and permanent possession at that. Had not Ralph sworn that he was Simon Craft's grandson? Had not the jury accepted Ralph's testimony as true? And had not the court ordered judgment to be entered on the jury's verdict? Well, if the court had declared the boy to be his grandson, he was entitled to him, was he not?
All you have to decide is whether the prisoner in the dock committed or procured and assisted others to commit the very serious acts of arson of which she is accused..." Nevertheless he or the hounds he kept in leash, the lesser counsel, sought subtly to prejudice the jury's mind against Vivie by dragging in her parentage and the eccentricities of her own career. As thus:
"In other words, these two rings are similar in style and value to the best rings in that tray?" "Yes." "Do you recognize those two rings?" "No not at all." Mr. Parminter paused a moment, and caught the jury's attention with a sharp glance of his eye before he turned again to the witness. "Could you have recognized any of the rings in that tray?" he asked. "No!" said Zillah. "I could not."
Presently three men came hurrying up and with difficulty made their way into the court room. "Good God! Are we too late?" the leader of the trio asked, excitedly. He was the waterfront merchant who had recognized Berdue. "Too late for the trial," returned Coleman; "it's over; the jury's dismissed. Disagreed." "And what are they doing outside?" cried the other, "are they hanging the prisoners?"
Esme Darlington was eating a meat lozenge and frowning, evidently discomposed by the jury's dilemma. Lady Ermyntrude Clarke had lifted her veil and was whispering eagerly to her son, bending her head, and emphasizing her remarks with excited gestures which seemed to suggest the energy of one already uplifted by triumph.
Tom kept his ears open when idlers sauntered out of the court-room, but invariably heard distressing news the toils were closing more and more relentlessly around poor Potter. At the end of the second day the village talk was to the effect that Injun Joe's evidence stood firm and unshaken, and that there was not the slightest question as to what the jury's verdict would be.
Black, with unaccustomed forbearance, answered gently enough: "Why, Scoville, madam; or so the prosecution congratulated itself upon having proved to the jury's satisfaction. It did not tally with Scoville's story or with common sense I know. You remember, pardon me, I mean that any one who read a report of the case, will remember how I handled the matter in my speech.
The case was heard by the Lord Chief and another judge, and they came to the conclusion that the jury's decision was right, that the county-court judge was wrong, and that Lloyd George was perfectly correct on the point of law in connection with which he had been overruled. Lloyd George was twenty-five when he secured this triumph.
She formally charged Michael Dennin with the murder of Dutchy and Harkey, and the prisoner lay in his bunk and listened to the testimony, first of Hans, and then of Edith. He refused to plead guilty or not guilty, and remained silent when she asked him if he had anything to say in his own defence. She and Hans, without leaving their seats, brought in the jury's verdict of guilty.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking