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to make his way into the Jury-box: and when<lb/> he is there, that it is in the power of any man who<lb/> in any shape is actuated by a strong interest to<lb/> command the <gap/> of eleven men who by the <gap/><lb/> | to make his way into the Jury-box: and when<lb/> he is there, that it is in the power of any man who<lb/> in any shape is actuated by a strong interest to<lb/> command the <gap/> of eleven men who by the <gap/><lb/> | ||
are without interest, needs no proof.</p> | are without interest, needs no proof.</p> | ||
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In this state of things, verdicts contrary to the<lb/> | In this state of things, verdicts contrary to the<lb/> | ||
< | <unclear>cleared</unclear> evidence <add>neither naturally can be nor actually are infrequent</add> are not infrequent: indeed so far are<lb/> | ||
from being so, that when | <add>they</add> from being so, that when they do <sic>occurr</sic>, no mention is<lb/> | ||
produced by them. | produced by them.<lb/> How should it be? The very object of the arrangement is to produce perjury: in the object<lb/> what is there that should <unclear>call</unclear> <gap/>? </p> | ||
of the arrangement is to | <p><!-- indent --> | ||
In cases not penal the mischief is not<lb/> | |||
altogether without remedy. For when <unclear>panic</unclear> and <gap/><lb/> | |||
suffice to demand it, new trial is sometimes<lb/> granted.</p> | |||
But in cases and <gap/> in capital<lb/> | But in cases and <gap/> in capital<lb/> | ||
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
cleared evidence neither naturally can be nor actually are infrequent are not infrequent: indeed so far are
they from being so, that when they do occurr, no mention is
produced by them.
How should it be? The very object of the arrangement is to produce perjury: in the object
what is there that should call ?
In cases not penal the mischief is not
altogether without remedy. For when panic and
suffice to demand it, new trial is sometimes
granted.
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.
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