Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1895 — Origin of the Jury System. [ARTICLE]

Origin of the Jury System.

A recent English writer on trial by jury says it was derived from Normandy. But it existed in Iceland from the earliest times, where the Normans certainly did not introduce it. As the Icelanders and the North Saxons were practically the same people, it is hardly open to question that their primitive customs were as nearly identical as their language. 1