Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1911 — Juries In the Old Days. [ARTICLE]

Juries In the Old Days.

In olden times when a jury in England remained Impervious to the Judge’s gentle mode of persuasion fine and imprisonment ware resorted to. The Jury that acquitted Sir Nicholas Throckmorton was condemned to eight months’ Imprisonment In addition to the payment of a large sum of money. In the reign of Queen Elisabeth a Jury, having reduced n prisoner's alleged crime of murder to that of manslaughter, was at once amt to prison and bound over la a large sum to be of good behavior. Penalties were likewise Inflicted upon the Innocent wife and children of the offending juryman.