The law, too, was of a highly flexible character, and the appeals of the advocates were rather to the passions and feelings of the jurors than to the legal points of the case.
My attention was directed to Maillot when one of the jurors began interrogating him.
The honest Dublin jurors were therefore cast into prison and heavily fined, while the prelate was once again transferred to London, whence he a second time escaped by the connivance of his jailor.
Strafford resented this rebuff deeply; and the brave Galway jurors were punished without mercy for their "contumacy," for they had been told openly to find for the king.
Informers and municipal bodies, governed by clubs, have caused a large number of non-jurors to be cast into dungeons.
At the very least he strives to constrain the non-jurors to swear, to close their separatist churches, and bring the entire canton to the same uniform faith.
There was, for instance, the law's delay, which necessitated additional fees to witnesses and jurors and thus materially added to the expenses of the County.
Some of the jurors who had risen to get a better view repented their curiosity and turned away their faces.
Harker flushed crimson again, but said nothing, and the seven jurors rose and solemnly filed out of the cabin.
The number of jurors varied; as many as a thousand might serve at an important trial.
The illustration shows a man and his wife (at the left) entering the hall in the spirit world, where sits the god of the dead with forty two jurors (seen above) as his assistants.
It soon developed that all but two of the jurors had been favorably inclined toward the defendant up to the time the State introduced the unexpected wives.
There is no appeal from the State decision in theory, and the practical illustration shows that the courts are closed against an application to review it, both judges and jurors being sworn to decide in its favor.
Later these jurors pretended that they had never meant to exclude Catholic jurors, but only as jurors when Protestants were contestants.
Son," said Judge Priest, still with his eyes on the darkening square below, "about how many of them jurors would you say are old soldiers?
The audience squared forward to watch the picking of the jurors, but there were never to be any jurors picked for the trial of this particular case.
As though he had put a question to them several of the jurors gravely inclined their heads.
Those jurors are as good solid men as you can find in this country anywhere.
The Court referred to the trial of Robinson, which had taken place at the present term, and in which some of the jurors now empanneled had rendered a verdict of guilty.
In the year last named she caused to be inserted in a town paper a notice that she furnished dinner and horse feed for twenty-five cents, and boarding and lodging for jurors and others attending court for two dollars a week.
During their long consultation the jurors were allowed refreshment; but on the Friday evening several resolved to elope: at a late hour they broke past the astonished constables, and returned to their homes.
It was argued, that the chances of influence multiply as the number of jurors are decreased, and that the national practice was the only safe guide.
The esprit du corps of the jurors occasionally appeared in their verdict: the decision of a cause in which an officer was the aggressor, or one which interested the passions, did not command the confidence of the people.
The judge advocate deliberated with his co-jurors in secret, and the court was re-opened only when they had agreed upon their verdict, and determined the sentence.
While civil jurors were confined to civil issues, they sat in the box occupied at other times by the military jury.
Efforts to resume land, not properly conveyed, were successfully resisted; and jurorsappear to have determined, at all times, to deny a verdict to the crown.
The jurors were not unfrequently interested: in some instances the prosecutor sat as witness and judge, giving the principal evidence in the case in which he was both to decide the guilt and apportion the punishment.
His co-jurors were unanimous; and after three days and nights resistance he submitted.
For days preceding the opening session Coroner Traeger his deputies and the six jurors had been engaged in a canvass of hospitals, undertaking establishments and morgues, viewing the dead.
Each succeeding call brought to thejurors a shudder.
The police troopers, the doctor, the coroner, the jurors had come and gone.
In token of which, as well the Coroner as we the said jurors have attached our seals,' etc.
The old quarrel revived: the dissatisfied magistrates and settlers dwelt on the characteristic depravity of the emancipists; and the necessity for their permanent disqualification as jurors and electors.
Even when jurors were selected by governors, the most unmeasured denunciations were poured forth without fear of prosecution.
Grand jurors are entitled to the same compensation and mileage as petitjurors (see next section).
In this way the foreman is SWORN, and the other grand jurors must swear that they will "observe and keep" the same oath taken by the foreman.
Persons summoned as jurors are entitled to receive one dollar per day for service on a jury, and mileage at the rate of four cents per mile travelled in going to and returning from court.
If jurors were appointed instead of being selected by lot, persons having prejudice or ill feeling against one of the parties in the case might be put on the jury, and the verdict rendered by such jury might be a very unjust one.
Consists of not less than nine nor more than twelve persons taken from a list of forty-eight selected by the Judge of the Circuit or Corporation Court from the qualifiedjurors of the county or city in which his Court is held.
Excepting the requirements of residence in the voting precinct, payment of poll tax and registration, the qualifications of jurors are practically the same as those of voters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jurors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
