Word: jurors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came an embarrassing discovery. The Birmingham Post, a vigorous supporter of the inquiry, dug into the histories of the 18 new grand jurors and splashed its findings across Page One. One juror had been a Ku Kluxer himself. Another had served two years in prison for a felony, lost his citizenship rights. Five others, including the foreman, had police records for drunkenness or disorderly conduct. The only Negro on the grand jury could neither read nor write. Circuit Judge George Lewis Bailes decided there was only one "reasonable, humane and practical" way out: he fired the ex-convict from...
...they did not think they could reach a verdict. Twice, Judge Kaufman sent them back to try again. Finally, 28 hours and 40 minutes after it had received the case, the jury announced a hopeless and final deadlock. One of Hiss's attorneys leaned over to ask a juror how they had balloted. The answer was a shock to him; eight to four for conviction...
Discharged by the judge, the eight majority jurors were angry and anxious to tell their story. Several walked over to shake Murphy's hand and congratulate him. His summation, said one juror, Mrs. Helen Sweatt, "was the real turning point of the case." The jury had been eight to four almost from the beginning. The leader of the holdouts for acquittal had been Foreman James-the man whom Murphy had singled out. But, said one juror, all twelve had agreed on two facts: that the documents were typed on the Hiss machine and that it was in the Hiss...
...four who voted for acquittal simply could not believe that the impeccable Hisses could be guilty of typing the documents. Said Juror James Hanrahan: "They kept referring to a Mr. X, who got into the Hiss house." Said another juror: "They thought Yehudi did it!" The Government said it would try again (probably in October...
Quality of Mercy. In Zanesville, Ohio, Juror Kathleen Nethers admitted she was not convinced that the defendant had murdered his mother, but had voted him guilty because another woman on the jury wanted to go home...