Word: juror
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Under Mississippi law, grand and petit juries are drawn from lists of citizens who have registered and paid poll tax. Among the 8,836 Negroes of Carroll County, Miss. (pop. 15,448), where Goldsby was indicted and tried, there is not one registered voter-hence, no qualified Negro juror. Twenty-two other Mississippi counties with similarly heavy Negro populations are also without Negro voters. Taking note of these statistics, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard T. Rives, Alabama-born, ordered Goldsby retried within eight months (after the Supreme Court ruling) before "a legally constituted jury" (i.e., one chosen from a panel from...
Swayed. In Bury St. Edmunds, England, when only eleven jurors filed out. of the box at West Suffolk quarter sessions court, Judge Gerald Howard took another look, spotted the twelfth juror sound asleep...
...real smasher," cooed unabashed Juror Friend on the front pages of the London press. "I was tremendously thrilled with our verdict. I was bubbling over with it." Then she called Liberace's room at the Savoy. But the pianist had left to play before a packed house at the Chiswick Empire. When a woman there shouted: "Let's have one for Mr. Connor!", Liberace turned to the keyboard and rippled out Jealousy...
...introduction to the show's catalogue, Juror Poor ruefully concludes that U.S. potters are not yet up to their European contemporaries. Perhaps, he says, it is because Americans "contend with more automobiles, more radios and television, more chain stores and packaging, more of all the things that induce nervousness and discontent and dissipate the patience and oneness most necessary for a potter...
House as an institution. "The House is the greatest jury on earth," says Sam Rayburn. In his capacity as chief juror, he soon decided that Wilbur Mills was a real comer. He brought Mills along, got him elected to Ways & Means in 1942, saw him become chairman last year...