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Court, that verdict being the opinion of the
majority of them; the most scrupulous care
being taken that the Jury never separate
nor communicate with any persons whatever
from the moment they are sworn: till
their verdict having been delivered as
aforesaid, has been publicly recorded by the
Register. The number of Native Jurymen of
every cast on Ceylon is so great, and a
knowledge beforehand what persons are
to compose a Jury in any particular case
is so uncertain, that it is almost impossible
for any person, whatever may be his influence,
in the Country, either to bias or to corrupt
a Jury. The number of Jurymen that are
returned by the Fiscal or Sheriff to serve
at each Sessions, the impartial manner
in which the names of the Jurymen are
drawn, the right which the Prisoner and
Prosecutor may exercise of objecting to each
Juryman as his name is drawn, the
strictness which is observed by the Court
in preventing all communication between the
Jurymen when they are once sworn, and
every other person till they have delivered
their verdict, give great weight to their
decision. The Native Jurymen being now
judges of fact, and the European Judges
only judges of Law, one European Judge
only is now necessary, where formerly, when
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sir alexander johnston |
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