I'm neither sheriff, constable nor juror.

By dint of perseverance and persuasion he obtained a promise from a juror-in-waiting that if he should be on the jury he would consent to no other verdict than manslaughter, which would be a tremendous triumph for the young solicitor.

The friendly juror-in-waiting took his seat in the box.

Now the young solicitor felt it was his faithful juror who was standing out.

No, sir!" exclaimed the juror.

If I could convince this conscientious juror that there might be (that would be good enough) a doubt as to identity, it would be sufficient for my purpose; so I mainly addressed myself to him, after disposing of the young policeman pretty satisfactorily, leaving only his bare belief to be dealt with in argument.

"Call another juror," he said, passing the list to Goodlaw, who also struck a name from it, added a new one, and passed it back.

jurat [Lat.], assessor; arbiter, arbitrator; umpire; referee, referendary^; revising barrister; domesman^; censor &c (critic) 480; barmaster^, ephor^; grand juror, grand juryman; juryman, talesman. archon, tribune, praetor, syndic, podesta^, mollah^, ulema, mufti, cadi^, kadi^; Rhadamanthus^. litigant &c (accusation) 938.

Turning up the reference in the book of cases presented to each juror, Mr. Clarkson found: "Charles Jones, 35, clerk; forging and uttering, knowing the same to be forged, a receipt for money, to wit, a receipt for fees on a plaint note of the Fulham County Court, with intent to defraud.

" "This threatens to be a very abstruse case," he remarked to a red-faced juror on his right.

The foreman glanced round, and the usher had already got as far as "Signify," when a venerable juror, prompted by Mr. Clarkson's example, interposed.

When it reached the red-faced juror, he regarded the blade closely up and down, with gloating satisfaction.

I state this merely to show the need of woman to speak for herself, to be as judge, to be as juror.

Reader, you are empannelled as a juror to try a plain case and bring in an honest verdict.

No colored man can be a judge, juror, or constable.

He was in early life a justice of the peace in Ireland, he was afterwards a juror in his Majesty's service, and withal, has been an extensive traveller.

It is sometimes made an objection, for instance, to a juror that he has formed some primâ-facie opinion upon a case: if he can be forced under sharp questioning to admit that he has formed such an opinion, he is regarded as manifestly unfit to conduct the inquiry.

They were always in profile, and he began at one extremity and ran his pencil round to the other, always bringing out an individuality, but without any intention as to what that should be; and he named it, when it was done, according to the type it offered, generally in character, with a trace of caricature, and, for the most part, subjects from the courts of law,a judge or a puzzled juror, a disappointed or a triumphant client, etc., etc.

A case had just closed, and the last juror's back was seen escaping through the door in the wall of the jury-box.

Quickly she canvassed the whole county, laying before every probable juror the strength of her case.

If the case has attracted much attention, the juror knows the prevailing ideas as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant.

In 1845 the average Churchman, after he had conquered the serious initial difficulty of comprehending the Non-Juror's position, was only too apt to consider him a fool for his pains.

These were clandestine consecrations, for even so well-tried and whole-hearted a Non-Juror as Thomas Hearne, of Oxford, knew nothing about them, though a great friend of both the new Bishops, until long years had sped.

It is almost needless to say that the son of the non-juror and his immediate posterity were staunch Jacobites, one and all.

"Because," announced the juror, pointing to the lawyer for the defense, "I'm being hired by that man there!" BRIDES "My dear," said the young husband as he took the bottle of milk from the dumb-waiter and held it up to the light, "have you noticed that there's never cream on this milk?