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The following anecdote relation may help our conception
Mon. Apr. 22 1788 of the true nature of the unanimity in an English
Jury, of the value of it as one in a security for good
justice, and of the way in which it forms itself. The following proof of the ignorance of a country
Jury very much excited the irritability of the Court. The
story is copied from the Morning Chronicle of April 24th, 1788

"At the last assizes in Cornwall, after Mr Justice Grose had
"with his usual precision had summed up the evidence in a
"cause for the recovering of a small debt; the Jury retired, &
"in a short time afterwards the Foreman appeared, and
"informed the Judge that there was only one Juror for the
"Defendant, and eleven for the plaintiff. He was desired to
"return to the rest, and consider the verdict. The Foreman
"sometime afterwards came again, and told the Judge there
"were four for the defendant, and eight for the Plaintiff,
"and requested the Judge would give the verdict but being
"informed that could not be done he retired, and soon
"afterwards returned with a verdict for the Defendant"

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	012	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l munn
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
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Notes public		ID Number	10605
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