48 adjectives to describe jury

That the grand jury was to be purged of all its French-Canadian members is evident from the addendum slipped in behind their backs.

In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed; and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, to be confronted with the witnesses against him, to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

This moderation had great weight with an intelligent jury and with learned judges.

As Tutt confidently whispered to Mrs. Appleboy, it was as rotten a jury as he could get.

F. Ward shows, beyond all question, that a most estimable citizen, and a most amiable, moral, and peaceable man has been wantonly and cruelly killed while in the performance of his regular and responsible duties as a teacher of youth; and, notwithstanding the verdict of a corrupt and venal jury, the deliberate judgment of the heart and conscience of this community pronounces that killing to be murder."

All we overtake we shoot on the spot, and in such numbers that the ways are heaped with them!" At Lyons, it is revolutionary to chain three hundred victims together before the mouths of loaded cannon, and massacre those who escape the discharge with clubs and bayonets;* and at Paris, revolutionary juries guillotine all who come before them.

He thinks they shouldas they are allowed to sit on petty juries.

Since the tragedy at Centralia dozens of union workers have been convicted by "courageous and patriotic" juries and sentenced to serve from one to fourteen years in the state penitentiary.

Whether it is not more reasonable to have him prosecuted before a judge unprejudiced, and a disinterested jury, than to act at once as party, evidence, and judge?

Then as O'Brien gave a shrug the judge turned to the expectant jury and said in apologetic tones: "Gentlemen of the jury, where the people have failed to prove the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt it is the duty of the court to direct a verdict.

The first entirely female jury was empanelled in Colorado this year (1910).

Allowing for possible defects in my previous reasoning against Hill's story, admitting that an adroit prosecuting counsel may be able to buttress up some of the weak points, allowing that you may have other circumstantial evidence supporting your case, that is the fatal flaw in your chain: because of Birchill's statement on his return to the flat no jury in the world ought to convict him.

His pictures were always among the events of the spring exhibitions; he had gathered round him a group of enthusiastic pupils who worked in the studio of the new house; and he had already received a good many honours at the hands of foreign juries.

"Yes!it's my darter, Zaidee Hookerso ye might spare some of them pretty speeches for herbefore the jury.

But a suit for damages!damages!with the reading of love-letters before a hilarious jury and court, was against all his instincts.

But they are given as related by eye-witnesses whose testimony would command a verdict from any honest jury.

An impromptu jury of neighbors decided with a rough and ready sense of fair play and justice what punishment the crime demanded, and then saw to the execution of their own decree.

It is easy to imagine what an effect such exposures of the habitual brutality of the man, narrated by a near relation of the sufferer, and interrupted at proper intervals by sobs and tears, would have upon an impulsive jury, obliged to derive their knowledge of the case wholly from such a source, and already strongly impressed by the circumstantial details with a presumption unfavorable to the defendant.

He then proceeded to say with a cheerful chuckle that there was a flaw in the form of the indictmentthe grand jury had blundered.

An acquaintance of his, in a moment of absent-mindedness, murdered somebody, and asked Watson to persuade the inevitable jury that he hadn't.

Regular justice, seated by the calm Pacific, found the action of an interior, irregular jury rash and hasty.

Even the most austere judges of the land, and the most jealous juries of tradesmen, have borne ample testimony to the reasonableness of this modern extension of the wants of life, by the liberal allowance of necessaries which they have sanctioned in the tailors' bills of litigating minors.

" "It is a lie, sira malignant, dd liethe jury believe no such thing, nor the public neither," said Marston, starting in his saddle, and speaking in a voice of thunder; "you have been crammed with lies, sir; malicious, unmeaning, vindictive lies; lies invented to asperse my family, and torture my feelings; suggested in my presence by that scoundrel Mervyn, and scouted by the common sense of the jury.

Where there is a reasonable doubt, no high-minded jury will convict; and I claim that my client has made it plain that there is such a reasonable doubt.

The lot is right twelve times in two dozen; the jury not oftener than half-a-dozen times.

48 adjectives to describe  jury