Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1881 — A New Jury System. [ARTICLE]

A New Jury System.

We would suggest that twelve jurors be appointed by the Governor for each circuit, and paid a reasonable salary for a fixed and definite term. This jury would travel about the circuit in the same manner as the Circuit Judge ; they would generally be totally disinterested, and, holding office by appointment, would never decide for political purposes. By experience, such a jury could learn to sift the true from the false testimony in almost every instance ; by practice they would become expert in weighing testimony and judging of the credibility of witnesses. Their verdicts would be sooner rendered, and more often in the right; for their judgment would lie the result of the deliberations of twelve men whose every-day business and study was such as to make their judgment peculiarly quick and accurate in such mat* ters.— Kentucky Reporter.