The Historical Development of the Jury System

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Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1894 - 274 頁

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第 153 頁 - No person shall be subject to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense; nor shall he be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
第 212 頁 - Then went the jury out, whose names were, Mr. Blindman, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, Mr. Love-lust, Mr. Liveloose, Mr. Heady, Mr. High-mind, Mr. Enmity, Mr. Liar, Mr. Cruelty, Mr. Hate-light, and Mr. Implacable; who every one gave in his private verdict against him among themselves, and afterwards unanimously concluded to bring him in guilty before the Judge. And first, among themselves, Mr. Blind-man, the foreman, said, I see dearly that this man is a heretic. Then said Mr. No-good, Away with such a...
第 152 頁 - No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of militia when in actual service ; and the land and naval forces in time of war...
第 14 頁 - For all manner of trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbour.
第 15 頁 - They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters, as well as to wrest laws ; and therefore they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause, and trust it to the judge, as well as in other places the client does it to a counsellor.
第 9 頁 - Of Law, there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice, the harmony of the world...
第 150 頁 - May I speak a few words in my own defence? Judge. Sirrah, Sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
第 227 頁 - In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy public trial by an impartial jury...
第 183 頁 - Not less than twenty-one, nor more than seventy years of age. . 3. The owner, in his own right, of real or personal property, of the value of two hundred and fifty dollars ; or the husband of a woman who is the owner, in her own right, of real or personal property of that value.
第 132 頁 - The trial by jury, in all cases in which it has been heretofore used, shall remain inviolate forever.

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