JB/035/173/001

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27 May 1808

I will get myself put upon the Jury — I will go
with my comrades into the withdrawing chamber, and then be the evidence what it will may, they shall stay,
till they have answered I have brought men to concurr with me in
a verdict of not guilty. - and so says the story
: the production being afterwards confessed by him in
his death-bed.

Supposing this true, what does it prove? - that
when a man is determined upon it, is in his power
to make his way into the Jury-box: and when
he is there, that it is in the power of any man who
in any shape is actuated by a strong interest to
command the of eleven men who by the
are without interest, needs no proof.

In this state of things, verdicts contrary to the
are not infrequent: indded so far
from being so, that when any do occur, no is
produced by them.
of the arrangement is to pardon perjury: in the
what is ?

In is not
altogether without . For whom and
to demand it, then that is sometimes
.

But in cases and in capital
is altogether in ob or contracting
more false
verdict find a dy, or at least a
or pardon: but to the prejudice of a plaintiff's
, and is it the prejudice of public
judgment an without remedy.

Identifier: | JB/035/173/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1808-05-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	173	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	10766
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