CO129-062 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [1-3] — Page 331

"That part of his Official Creport

of the January

"

Criminal

Sessions enclosed in Despatch

Jc 28 which commenced

with the words - "In this

"last case the

The Juny

"divided. " to the end

Report.

deem

was

Ca

of such

I dears it my duty to you that in this

point out to

Clony the division of Jurors

inte

special and common does Not apply to Criminal Trials- All classes of the while portion of the Community serve is indiscriminately -

There is no

Freman selected the Juror

whose name is first

329

called

sits by custom in that corner

Jury her which is

Chrip Justice

of the Jury

nearest to the

Onds

he is therefore the usual

medium

of communication with the Court. It was from

the very

8

commencement of the hial a matter of general

Comment and congratulation in the Colony that adjudication

in a matter of such grave importance had fallen to a

Jury far superior to the

Ordinary Charg

character of Juries,

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