ELEVEN DAYS’ SCHOOLING.
NOVEL SENTENCE ON JURY. A jury lias just -been sentenced to -eleven days' sclioolin-g for freeing a 1 prisoner at Chicago. The jury had acquitted a defendant who, a policeman testified, was found at .midnight on the roof of a house with a hit of burglar tools. The charge was attempted burglary. Circuit Court Judge George F. Rush pronounced sentence on the jurors: “If -the evidence in this' case will not sustain a verdict of guilty, no evidence ever will in any case. You have eleven days more to serve, but I won’t let you hear any more cases as jurors. For the remaining eleven days you will sit in the rear -of this court and try to learn something of your duties as jurors.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 February 1929, Page 7
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128ELEVEN DAYS’ SCHOOLING. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 February 1929, Page 7
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