Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1903 — The Intelligent Juror. [ARTICLE]

The Intelligent Juror.

It Is a common and natural practice of lawyers In addressing a jury to single out one member who seems to them the most Intelligent, and to; deliver their appeals to him. They usually feel that if they can Impress him, his Influence will he valuable in Its effect upon the other members. If they make a mistake they rarely discover It, says the New York Sun. But the stenographer of one division of the Supreme Court tells an Incident of a mistake that was found out. All the testimony in a case had been taken, the lawyers for both sides had summed up and the judge had charged the Jury, when up rose the intelligent juror whom h|Oth counsel had singled out as the recipient of their lmpasslonod appeals. He wanted the court to give him some Information. “I have been bothered a good deal,” said the Juror, “about two worda the lawyers use here all the time.** “What are they?” asked the court, expecting to be called upon to expound res Inter alios acta or a fortiori, or some other dead terms. “Why, *plalnlifT and ‘defendant.’** said the Juror. “I don’t know what they mean.”