Word: jurymen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hart whose role is very capably played by Fiancine Larrimore, the author burlesques on the recent trials of bobbed-haired bandits and wronged mothers. Roxie is seduced to her own room by her paramour, kills him, and goes on trial with only the women's benefit league, twelve sentimental jurymen and her foolish husband to back...
Against the culprits appeared, last week, bristling, the Attorney General, Sir Douglas Hogg. Jurymen and spectators craned forward to catch his words, for he ranks in private life with that great barrister,* Sir John Simon, as one of the few legal fencers in England whose swordplay is worth ?20,000 a year-pittance though that would be to a first rank U. S. attorney. Last week Sir Douglas Hogg adduced the testimony of faithful George Monkland and other witnesses with irrefutable force, then cried to the jury...
Reading pointed out that jurymen, summoned to sit on capital cases, have recently refused to serve, and that this situation has become a serious menace in the prosecution of justice...
...defense will be allowed two challenges for each defendant, when they are picking the jurymen. It is estimated that the case will last the better part of a week, since the evidence must all be presented over again more fully than before...
...client was sure to be convicted, put a fingerprint expert on the stand, asked him, for the sake of form, to identify Mr. Shapiro's fingerprints with Mr. Feit's. "Positively not the same," said the expert. The Judge ordered an acquittal. In the mind of the jurymen, the judges, the clerk, the counsel might have been the belief that this man, an arch criminal, had found a way to change the markings on the pads of his fingers. Honest Feit smiled, wrinkling the skin around his wart. He walked away a free...