The mode of selecting grand jurors is in general the same in all the states.

suddenly announced a juror with a red face.

If the action is conducted in a higher court, then a jury decides the question at issue, the judge instructing the jurors in points of law.

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.

And whereas of late years, partial, corrupt, and unqualified persons have been returned, and served on juries in trials, and particularly divers jurors in trials for high treason, which were not freeholders.

No, sir!" exclaimed the juror.

Mr. Goodlaw, are you ready to go to the jury?" Goodlaw, who had been, during this time, holding a whispered conversation with Ralph, arose, bowed to the court, and turned to face the jurors.

The great inquest of all, the Domesday survey, may owe its principle to a foreign source; the oath of the reporters may be Norman, but the machinery that furnishes the jurors is native; "the king's barons inquire by the oath of the sheriff of the shire, and of all the barons and their Frenchmen, and of the whole hundred, the priest, the reeve, and six ceorls of every township.

"Page eight, number twenty-one," shouted the black-robed usher, who guided the jurors as a dog guides sheep, and wore the cheerful air of congenial labour successfully performed.

It was in vain that the court pronounced this opinion "the most damnable heresy ever broached in the land," and that the government employed all its influence to win or intimidate the jurors; after a trial of three days, Lilburne, obtained a verdict of acquittal.

'I never (said he) knew a non-juror who could reason.'

They looked stupid, and he liked stupid jurors.

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

They summon jurors.

The suggestions that what grave parliaments, learned judges, and all classes of "respectability" sanctioned, could not be wrong, much less murderous or cruel, silenced the "still, small" tones, and tranquilized the startled jurors.

A particular challenge may be based on some bias in this particular case which would unfit the proposed juror for rendering an impartial verdict.

"And ye authors warne jurors, &c not to condemne suspected psons on bare prsumtions wthout good & sufficient proofes.

Twenty-two!" cried the red-faced man, adding up the jurors with the end of a pen, and ostentatiously omitting Mr. Clarkson.

So he inserted the following paragraph in his paper: "Yesterday died Mr. Colley Cibber, late Comedian of the Theatre Royal, notorious for writing the 'Non-juror.'

Retainers never seek and should not find counsel who address jurors with classical or formal correctness.

" "What was the district?" asked the juror who was assistant foreman of the Bully Boy Hose.