Nothing is more confusing to the ordinaryjuryman than trying to determine the probative value of evidence touching unsoundness of mind, and the application thereto of the legal test of criminal responsibility.
They are merely lined up along a bench well to the front of the court-room--the imagination of the juryman does the rest.
Hamburg, a town for whose inhabitants the oldjuryman had, like others of his compatriots, a constitutional antipathy.
Ordinarily the word is not defined at all and the befuddled juryman is left to his own devices in determining what significance he shall attach not only to this word but to the test as a whole.
The next step is to slip some jurymaninto the box who is likely for any one of a thousand reasons to lean toward the defence--as, for example, one who is of the same religion, nationality or even name as the defendant.
The juryman will swear that he is unaffected by what he has read, but unknown to himself there are already tiny furrows in his brain along which the appeal of the defence will run.
Even the juryman hears the sober statement of the Judge, and talks the case over with his associates of the panel in the quiet seclusion of the jury-room.
His enemies used to say that he always contrived to sleep with one juryman himself, and have his client sleep with another, when he had a case coming on.
The juryman who had daughters of his own had been put down, and the barrister had given, at any rate, an answer to the attack that had been silently made on him by the feeling of the court.
Is there a juryman in the country would find him guilty because he was lying in the old man's ditch a week before?
There was a juryman there, a father with many daughters, who thought that it might not misbecome him to put forward such a prayer himself.
Probability is the torch that everyjuryman should hold, and by the light of that torch he should march to his verdict.
How does that juryman fellow become so familiar with our private affairs?
Had a little scene with Mr. Rawdon, the juryman who has been making all this fuss during the inquiry.
It was the juryman that's been putting all those questions at the inquest about our private affairs, and that's been doing his best to throw suspicion upon Reginald and me and all of us.
Vinsen and the vindictive juryman down, in the hope of discovering something that would be of service to them.
Who but the juryman that little Gracie catches conspiring with Dr.
Lists of proscription were said to be made; and one of them was secretly communicated as having been found among the papers of a juryman of the Revolutionary Tribunal lately arrested.
In the United States, as elsewhere, the averagejuryman is not very well versed in the fine distinctions of the law.
This judge's reason for releasing a juryman from duty was equally smart.
The juryman in question confessed that he was deaf in one ear.
He said with dignity: "I shall choose one juryman from each of the different countries that are working in this mine, that no nation may seem to be slighted, for this gold belongs to all the world.
No man must refuse to be a juryman in a trial by lynch.
Had a juryman died after months of the trial had passed, the Government must have abandoned the prosecution.
A jurymanis empannelled against his will, and sit he must.
A juryman is empannelled against his will, and sit he must.
A juryman is empannelled against his will, and sit he must.
Mole, however, was led away in custody and a fresh juryman sworn.
I have to attend court as a juryman in the morning.
But I instance it to shew, the counsels of every grand juryman should be kept secret, that he may act freely and without apprehensions of resentment from the prosecuted or prosecutor.
I am entirely of your lordship's opinion, the oath of a grand juryman is not always sufficiently considered by the jurors, which is as follows.
And you may as well know, Gudmund, that when I left home this morning I was thinking that I must tell the Juryman your position if you did not decide to do so yourself.
Soon they were all standing in the little room which the Juryman used as his study.
We may be glad that he has spoken now, and that we have not been tricked and dragged into this wretched affair," said the Juryman bitterly.
The Juryman knew, to be sure, that he had quite a big name; but he was so poor that sometimes he would appear at a wedding in a frayed jacket and without shoes to his feet.
Now I think you are agreed with me that we must let the Juryman know this at once," said the father.
Since there was to be so much dancing, it was of very great importance to get a good fiddler, and Juryman Nils Olafsson, who was managing the wedding, worried almost more over this than over anything else.
But when the foreman observed the proportion he announced that one juryman must change his vote because the same proportion three times running would appear too improbable!
The resolved juryman is so much the less to be converted, as he usually either pays no more attention to the subsequent testimony, or hears it in such prejudiced fashion that he sees everything in his own way.
I know well who this is, what the little town near his estate is called, and now I suddenly know that the man whose name I want to remember is the merchant X of Y who once was a juryman in my court.
This happens not rarely and means that the juryman observed is clear in his own mind as to how he is going to vote.
Suddenly, I see him before me with serious face and folded hands, on his right a similar individual and a similar one on his left, above them a high window with a curtain--the man was a juryman who sat opposite me.
The clerk of arraigns stood up, and went as best he could through the tedious process of calling each juryman by name.
Augustus added a fourth decuria from the lower classes, and Caligula a fifth, so that Quintilian could speak of a juryman as ordinarily a man of little intelligence and no legal or general knowledge.
Certainly, too, each juryman seemed to realise the importance of his position and the seriousness of what he had to do.
But scarcely had the words left his lips, than a fresh flame of feeling started up within him, and looking from juryman to juryman he passionately exclaimed: "You consider that acknowledgment suspicious.
Symonds, going up to the juryman and looking over his shoulder at the book.
An inquiry which was put to him at this time by a juryman showed the existent state of feeling against him.
The juryman looked at him astonished; so did all the rest.
The coroner, one elbow on the table, one large hand holding firmly the somewhat fleshy chin, looked at the juryman somewhat contemptuously.
I cannot enter the court as a juryman again without explaining to someone how I am placed.
We say that thejuryman is not a juryman because he has brought in a verdict.
It may be questioned whether the exaggerated theory of impartiality in an arbiter or juryman may not be carried so far as to be more unjust than partiality itself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "juryman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
