And so we were all discharged without retaining the three who voted to find a true bill, and a new jury was empaneled.
The excuse offered was that putting a juror on in the place of one excused was irregular, and their findings would be void, and also we had failed to find a true bill against a certain man.
A true bill (Law), a bill of indictment which is returned by the grand jury so indorsed, signifying that the charges to be true.
If the grand jury believed that there were sufficient grounds for upholding any of them, their foreman endorsed it as "A true bill," and it then became an indictment.
The accused thus has two chances of escape before he can be put on trial for the charge against him: one by a discharge ordered by the committing magistrate, and one by the refusal of the grand jury to return "a true bill.
But, after all, perhaps they would not find a true bill, and then Jim would go free, and he could breathe again.
I suggest that a true billbe found at once, and that we proceed to more important matters.
I guess if a true bill's got to be found agin any one, it's got to be found agin me.
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