How To Use Juryman In A Sentence

  • Looking round, he saw that the juryman had turned together, to consider their verdict. Oliver Twist
  • But the juryman votes for acquittal anyway, reflecting that philosophers sometimes err.
  • For example, trial-by-jury orders the behavior of participants into roles such as defendant, prosecutor, defense counsel, juryman, judge.
  • The compurgator slides into the witness and the juryman, bringing with him the oath on the Bible and trial for perjury, and the feed champion of the Church into the patron. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
  • Augustus added a fourth _decuria_ from the lower classes, and Caligula a fifth, so that Quintilian could speak of a juryman as ordinarily a man of little intelligence and no legal or general knowledge. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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  • When the judge said,'Let that note be handed up to me ', the juryman shook his head and said: 'No need, Your Honour, it's a private matter. Times, Sunday Times
  • An absentee juryman or one who attends unfit as a result of alcohol or other drugs is liable to summary proceedings in a magistrates' court as well as to committal for contempt.
  • But look, if true belief and knowledge were the same thing, then an excellent juryman wouldn't have a correct belief without knowledge.
  • He is compelled to behave as a suppliant49 in the courts of justice, and when some juryman comes into court, to grasp his hand. The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians
  • One judge, or juryman, has made up his mind that prose was your true province, and that your letters will out-live your lays. Letters to Dead Authors
  • The Full Court of Victoria nonetheless dismissed the appeal from this tongue-tied judge - your Honour - who thought he was a juryman.
  • In Bushell's case habeas corpus was used to release a juryman who had been gaoled for returning what the court regarded as a perverse verdict.
  • Inasmuch as the defence needs only to secure the vote of one juryman to procure a disagreement, this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make, since the prosecutor, who must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of letting an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip into the box. Courts and Criminals
  • But the plea of insanity, with its vague test of responsibility, whose terms the juryman may construe for himself (or which his fellow-jurors may construe for him) offers an unlimited and fertile field for the Courts and Criminals
  • A member of the assembly decides about future events, a juryman about past events: while those who merely decide on the orator's skill are observers. Aristotle's Rhetoric - Selected Moments
  • Having a majority of eleven against him, the wise juryman consented to a merciful verdict of death by misadventure.
  • During that time, he bought a considerable amount of land, and became active in the affairs of New Milford, serving as juryman, town clerk, church deacon, school committeeman, and agent to the Assembly of Town business. History of American Women
  • A juryman surmised that the deceased slipped as he was watching the waves, pointing out that his hat was found on the stones. Archive 2010-05-01
  • Having a majority of eleven against him, the wise juryman consented to a merciful verdict of death by misadventure.
  • The case was livened up one day in early July when an elderly spectator inadvertently wandered into the jury box when trying to find his seat, leading one of the prosecuting councils to joke that "The 13th juryman is on the Bench I always understood. Archive 2009-02-01
  • Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. Les Miserables
  • I am immensely impressed by the way in which the British juryman and jurywoman simply sits down to do this disagreeable duty though the heavens fall.
  • However, the reason for rejecting the unanimity principle was itself very Russian; it was argued that one juryman should not be allowed to thwart the will of eleven others.

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