Word: juryman
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...their town council, demanded that the objectionable picture, which greeted Willow Glen's children on their way to school, be removed. The Council summoned for the defense Educational Director Edward Lloyd Lomax of Foster & Kleiser Billboard Advertising Corp. Director Lomax was in a San Francisco court serving as juryman in the $1,800,000 suit of its onetime Board Chairman L. E. W. Pioda against Golden State Milk Products Co. Judge Walter Perry Johnston announced he would grant a recess while Juror Lomax traveled 50 mi. to Willow Glen on an important mission. Several hours later Juror Lomax returned...
...asked the talesman: "Is any person connected with any of your families a member of the New York Stock Exchange?" he raised his hand and revealed what few persons know: "My grandfather is a member." Because the grandfather does not trade actively, the grandson was accepted as No. 2 juryman...
Women wept hysterically. A farmer-juryman paled, called for brandy, collapsed. Locked up at last in the jury room the farmers soon sent out a message, stated that they wished to find a verdict against the prisoner but wanted assurance from the Judge that Richard Corbett would be pardoned...
...Radical Labor, muttering that here was another Sacco-Vanzetti case, had less to say. Melodrama was the introduction. A bulky something was wheeled in before the jury. The covering was whipped off to reveal a wax dummy of the slaughtered man, staring, pallid. Madness brought an interval. When a juryman, brooding long on hell and damnation, broke down and was carried yelling to a padded cell, Judge Victor Maurice Barnhill declared a mistrial. Mildness seemed the new motive. When the Aderholt trial reopened with 12 sane jurors, the prosecution had lessened the indictments to second-degree, had quashed all charges...
...expensive brief case; bring them in an ordinary paper wrapping. . . . Try to get a seat at a table near the jury and let the jury see what you are doing. . . . Lean on the table and look the jury in the eye. . . . Use the same language that the juryman would use in telling your story to his wife and children...