The Unfortunte Jury
F asked my verdict on the NZBS play Gentlemen of the Jury, I should unhesitatingly answer Guilty, guilty of gross irrelevance. Gentlemen of the Jury purports to tell us how juries came to enjoy their present right of presenting their verdict without fear of judicial wrath, and draws most of its material from the famous trial of William Penn, the Quaker, in 1669, in which the jury brought in a verdict of Not Guilty and the judge used considerable pressure to persuade them to reverse it. But William Penn hogged the greater part of » the programme (the possessor, incidentally, of such an annoying voice that one Ssympathised with the villainous judge who kept shouting "Silence that man!"’) and it was not until he had buried his father and reformed his sister that we were able to get back to the unfortunate jury, left languishing in prison ever since the trial.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 802, 3 December 1954, Page 10
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153The Unfortunte Jury New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 802, 3 December 1954, Page 10
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