Mademoiselle Sisos, the jury have awarded to you a second prize.
Mademoiselle Jullien, the juryhave awarded to you the first prize.
Guitry, the jury have awarded to you a premier accessit.
The other awards are given, the jury leave their box, and the audience disperse.
It is six o'clock when the last competitor has said his say, and then the jury retire to deliberate respecting the awards.
Half an hour passes, and then, after what seems a weary period of suspense, the box-door is thrown open and the jury resume their seats.
The jury occupy a box in the centre of the dress-circle and opposite to the stage.
In his view there would be no Jury in all western Europe worthy of deciding upon a work of art, because we none of us are situated in the natural conditions of laborious life.
And what is this Jury of people situated in the natural conditions of laborious life who are to decide not individually but as a Jury?
So impossible has jury duty been found, even in small communities, that in Wyoming the jury service of women ceased with the first judge who admitted them to serve at all; and in Colorado but one or two women have ever served.
In regard to jury duty Suffragists are not agreed; which fact alone shows that that service would be felt to be an impairment of sex conditions.
A criminal case often lasts weeks, even months, during which time the juryare kept together and alone, locked up at night, and walked out by day.
Jacobi says in regard to jury service: "The numerous cases for exemption now admitted for men would be certainly paralleled for women, but they would not always be identical.
The leaders said: "We demand, in criminal cases, that most sacred of all rights, trial by jury of our own peers.
While the jury withdrew to consider their verdict, Colonel Townley looked more indifferent than any other person in court.
No further testimony was given to the jury by either party.
As to the first issue joined in this case, we of the jury find the defendant not guilty; and as to the issue secondly above joined, we of the jury find that before and at the time when, etc.
Thereupon the plaintiff moved the court to give to the jury the following instructions, viz.
On the trial of this cause by the jury, the plaintiff, to maintain the issues on his part, read to the jury the following agreed statement of facts (see agreement above).
The provisions relating to slavery dispensed with grand juries in the indictment of slaves, and trial by jury was allowed only in trial of capital cases.
His influence with the jury was overpowering, insisting in an elaborate and able charge that the law was constitutional, and, without much hesitation, the verdict was given against Miss Crandall.
Perhaps, if she had been tried by a jury of her peers--but Mrs. Nevill Tyson had no peers in Drayton Parva.
She was tried by an invisible and incorruptible jury of ideas in Miss Batchelor's head.
His Lordship recalled the jury at Mr. Butt's request to say that in assessing damages they might also take into consideration the fact that the defence was practically a justification of the libel.
Sir Edward Clarke rose and submitted that there was no case to go to the jury on the general counts.
He invited the jury to say that "although there was, in his correspondence which had been read, evidence of excitability, to talk of him as a young man who did not know what he was saying was to exaggerate the effect of his letters.
There is not a judge on the bench whose opinion on such a matter is worth a moment's consideration, and the jury are a thousand years behind the judge.
I appealed to Shaw, and Shaw said he thought I was right; the case would very likely go against Oscar, a jury would hardly give a verdict against a father trying to protect his son.
Besides, he wished to spare the jury the necessity of investigating in detail matter of the most appalling character.
The day after his release a London morning journal was not ashamed to publish what it declared was a correct analysis of the voting of the jury on the various counts.
Did he postpone the sentence in order not to frighten the nextjury by the severity of it?
The jury would wonder not at the reports having reached Lord Queensberry's ears, but that Oscar Wilde had been tolerated in London society as long as he had been.
It was like trying an Irish Secretary before a jury of Fenians.
I am sure I and the jury will do our best to take care that the last trial has no influence at all on the present.
He reminded the jury that he had asked Lady Wilde why she had not answered Miss Travers when she wrote to her.
Trial by jury was dispensed with, because no such institution was found in the Mosaic law.
On account of these defects the jury declined to bring in a verdict.
The charges were dismissed by the grand jury as unfounded, but Brent treated Ingle harshly, and fined and exiled Thomas Cornwallis for assisting the captain in escaping.
I repeat that I regret that the jury should have thought fit to add a very uncalled-for rider to their verdict.
Then followed some expert evidence whereby, amongst other things, the Crown proved to the jury the fearfully contagious nature of puerperal fever, which closed the case for the prosecution.
I noticed with dismay also that his evidence produced a deep effect upon the minds of all present, judge and jury not excepted.
It was very evident that the jury found a difficulty in making up their minds, for minute after minute went by and still they did not return.
The judge having returned to his seat on the bench, in the midst of the most intense silence the clerk asked the jury whether they found the prisoner guilty or not guilty.
Incredible as such wickedness might seem, the jury must remember that it was by no means unprecedented.
The jury were long in coming back, and in time I accustomed myself to the staring and comments, and began to think out the problem of my position.
This, he submitted, was the true version of the story, and he confidently asked the jury not to blast the career of an able and rising man, but by their verdict to reinstate him in the position which he had temporarily and unjustly lost.
It was clear to me that, so far as my future was concerned, it did not matter what verdict the jury gave.
Altogether, their cleverness and trained acumen made up on the whole for Charles's over-certainty, and they succeeded in putting before the jury a strong case of their own against Paul Finglemore.
If his decision faltered, and he failed to identify, the case was closed; no jury could convict with nothing to convict upon.
Surely, if he were not Colonel Clay, thejury should ask themselves, must it not have been simple and easy for him to do so?
Finally, the judge summed up all the elements of doubt in the identification--and all the elements of probability; and left it to the jury to draw their own conclusions.
He asked the jury to dismiss from their minds entirely the impression created by what he frankly described as "Sir Charles Vandrift's obvious dishonesty.
Upon the announcement of the verdict of the coroner's jury the prisoner was released, and returned to Chicago by the same train that bore the remains of the dead engineer.
Hutchinson tried to induce the grand jury to indict Warren for libel on account of this intemperate attack.
He brought suit against Robinson, and a jury gave a judgment of two thousand pounds damages against the defendant.
His eloquence was better adapted to popular assemblies than to the graver occasions of legislative debate; in the halls of justice, it produced a greater effect on the jury than on the judge.
A jury of twelve men was summoned, who visited the spot, listened to Temple's story, pronounced him guiltless, and the judge so decided.
Would twelve of this House, or would any juryin the country say that the war continued longer than hostilities?
This deprived the defendant of all opportunity of cross-examination, so essential to the discovery of truth, and the jury of all knowledge of the character and credibility of the deponent.
Government being ready to pay the damages, in case they could not be recovered before a court of law, there certainly never would be found a jury to bring a verdict against a private person.
Would any jury in this country say, that the matter of fact and the principles of law were not in favor of the petition?
He instanced, in a particular clause of that law, the power of entering houses by warrant from a justice of the peace--trial by jury is secured by this bill, and other provisions friendly to personal rights are added.
Let us put the case, that a jury in the Western counties, where these points must be tried, shall find any of these people entitled to less than what you have bestowed upon them?
When I was retained on this case I was asked to put the whole matter before the Grand Jury at its next sitting.
Do you expect, Dodge, that a court and a jury would take your unsupported word against the testimony of two such men as Dr.
Mrs. Macanany's hoarse voice, being told thereby that she and Ned were the topic of conversation among the jury of matrons assembled opposite.
The Puritan blood that flowed in his veins made him stern jury and harsh judge.
The jury that had listened with ill-concealed envy to the recital of the amorous interne's promiscuous exploits, listened to Hazlitt and experienced suddenly a fine rage against the deceased.
Hazlitt's concluding remarks to the jury on the subject of dishonored womanhood and the merciless bestiality of certain male types had been more than a legal oration.
In thirty minutes the still outraged jury was to file in and utter its dignified protest.
When the jury retired, it was felt that she had cleared her character: when they re-entered the room with their verdict, it was known that she had been awarded three millions damages for its defamation.
It was expected, and indeed there was some surprise when the jury retired, for the general opinion was that whether guilty or innocent the prosecution had failed to bring home unmistakably the crime to the prisoner.
A perfect silence reigned in the court when the jury entered the box, and something like a sigh of relief followed their verdict.
The juryconsulted together for a short time and then expressed their desire to retire to consider their verdict.
The question we have to concern ourselves with is what do the jury think, or at any rate with what they think is proved, and Mr. Grant says he does not believe any jury could find you guilty upon the evidence.
Of course we shall put it to the jury that there is nothing uncommon about that.
Neither doctors, coroner, local police nor jury entertain the slightest doubt that he died from natural causes," he argued.
Those two poor women were by the jury found guilty, and hanged on the seventeenth day of March, 1664, one week after their trial.
The Jury found them guilty, and they were hanged as before stated.
The repayments required by the previous act, under which operations ceased on the 15th of August, had to be made on the principle of the grand jury cess, which laid the whole burthen upon the occupier.
At Lismore an inquest was held on a man, also named Sullivan, and the jury found that his death was caused by the neglect of the Government in not sending food into the country in due time.
She explained to the coroner and the jury what they had had to support them during the week, on the Saturday of which her husband died.
A respectable jury having been sworn, the first of these was upon a man named John Sullivan.
He quoted Parliamentary reports to prove what tyrannical use had been made of the powers conferred by Coercion Acts, and he enumerated those passed since 1801, under some of which trial by jury was abolished.
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