foreigners with the most licited knowledge
of English. The jury consists of seven persons,
and verdicts are
criminal
given by a majority.
Jurors, including
former
a
custom, cases
the Common
by the
contrary of unvider
foreigners is by his early
lo
All
unviders Now
education
light to expect that the prosecution will put the
CARE
: before him supplemented.
and strengthened by the statement and consideration of the Criminal. Something therefore appears to their minds to be
It is true that there is an
wanting. Ordinarily in force in this Colony, N. 18 of 18/3, for the oral examination of prisoners,
but since the diction of the late Chief Justice, Sir John Smate, that he would
never use it, unless he thought
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of the prisoner, it has been little used. Several Postsignere are Judges; by the laws of their country capital punishment is not allowed. The effect on them of a speech similar to that made by the Court for the deferral
in the last case
of worden, may be easily imagined. Gentlemen of the Jury "... that you
eure
treflect.
will pause and,
" before by your
verdict
you consign.
this unfortunate prisoner to an ignominiour death by hanging
"the
scaffold."
(b) Too much stress is permitted
to be laid on
the
evidence discrepancies between shown in the depositions
taken at the Magistracy and that
given at the Supreme Court. Nothing
could
extract ... sor
nothing for
the benefit
to store
Concerne the
simple than the Conversel
for