CO129-040 - General Jervois - 1852 [3-12] — Page 84

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4.

12 to 15 cases tried at each

Lessions

and that there is reasionally civil business besides it appears to me - that the suggested increase of the number of the fury from 6 to I would

9 be weacting too much from this __ community. If I am correct in the supposition that the average amount of education of a Jury here is higher than that of those in England then 6 men here are as likely if not more likely to return a correct verdict. than 9 men at home, but however

this may

may be my experience of furies has convinced me that whether

concreting of 6- 9 or 12 men the for greater part of them are quoad the verdict nullities following implicitly the leye on tary of some one or two of their compeers and therefore increase of numbers does not I think

or

afford any additional security for the finding of a correct verdict. I do not see the advantage in the delay of two hours before taking the verdict of a

a non unanimons Jury it is a half

measure which would obstinate man and

the

Case-

not coerce an obstinate might induce a timed one to vote contrary to his view of I regret that the pury claw of Hongkong have not that high sense of the privilege of being a Juryman which Mr Rogers attributes to them for I know that on the arbitrary - elision by His Excellency the then Governor and the Legislative Council of thirty four names from the Jury List at the commencement of this the gentlemen thus excluded did not feel that any stigma attached to them but were rather

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