Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1886 — Judge and Jury. [ARTICLE]

Judge and Jury.

The Trial Justice in a South Carolina county was called on to dec de a case between two citizens of equal respectability. The evidence was about equally balanced. After argument by the attorneys the Trial Justice said: “I sit here both as Judge and jury. As jury I fail to agree. As Judge I grant a new trial, and it is so ordered.”