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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1335, 24 March 1883, Page 4

THE JURY SYSTEM IN AMERICA. Tlh-DMriqi Attorney of S;m Francisco, is i»i» annual »ef.o>t, B<y»:-."I m weiry. am] I think the people generally are Mm v. i,f the tenderness of the law ••'Warris c iminalß." He asks whether it ■ ut i'(.t" a factih.t the jury } m outlived i» u«efq-neHB. »t ti-at ct- i|i-a'i<ui rnd fcuw'f l)ne the j r. 1" H 'limki Ui«t [.ulilia men shtmli have tbd e tir.gh ti fl.j imt hqi) cxrdninn the jury «ytem,Bßitouahc to hn cn'ki-ed and m h r»lio »f« hubirou* age. 1 ih eimitersinr.6, expeneive, and what is wot fie. it .delays and oiwruc-j the «(laji:.iß ; rati'm ol justice, and ha adds to tin* Buef-pnii' condemnation that three fi'ld wore cimu is spent m procuring juries tLrin in frying casoa. Were the jury syitein abolishod, ena court would do the . irrk notv dotm by three courts, sndJnil, far better, Mr Pratt spent• ing from bis professional and offi. eiil iXi-.ormet, a>s Ibat true cmiclu mmi" »■• iii.i I e»tcm I'd rivßi) a< and just tl-f ne.mnio inv.-.Tiobly aiiminiatna'-d. •m* judges, whrj accustomed owei'u ..eftfeotv.totrji ta.e» wnlout the interftiuliro ofßjury, Thejury was oripnall) t.u shifld'of .protection of the innioem ■. aLd tie jigi-inst the Btmng and . f«';se »■ cuter" now it has been convrrt.d ■<Wu ;;-.t■ prnlerlii'-n of the nickod.imd . 'J'iieitiiioiientm.iu, or'pneffhW ..' lat-Sh i 6 jun., (Itiesiiol AV»nt a jury; it is / the aiMoudiel that ivants one, for if by any ' 2i"'i.'HßS he.'ca'u *ecuio the fayiur of <me , jmnnii 12, <brit is prneiicully cqniv..le»t • (dticjal 'fciiJiwooy of the working ol the .;'..4wy bjiiU'iu iu America, whereiihas boen ; "'lNd'frdebauoli jiwlice.