JUDGE. I ask once more: is the Baroness willing to take the oath?
BARONESS. Yes.
BARON. Permit me to suggest that the Baroness just now appears as complainant, and a complaint is not made under oath.
JUDGE. As you have charged her with a criminal offence, she is defendant. What does the Jury hold?
EMMANUEL WICKBERG. As the Baroness is a party to this suit, it seems to me that she can hardly be allowed to testify in her own behalf.
SWEN OSCAR ERLIN. It seems to me that if the Baroness is to testify under oath, then the Baron should also be allowed to do so in the same matter, but as oath may not be put against oath, the whole matter remains in the dark.
AUGUST ALEXANDER VASS. I should say that it is not a question of testifying under oath here, but of taking an oath on one's own innocence.
ANDERS ERIC RUTH. Well, isn't that the question which has to be settled first of all?
AXEL WALLIN. But not in the presence of the parties, as the deliberations of the Court are not public.
CARL JOHAN SJÖBERG. The right of the jury to express itself is not limited or conditioned by secrecy.