"The jury are all of one mind—temporarily insane."
THE JUDGE (to jury, who have retired several times without agreeing)—"I understand that one juryman prevents your coming to a verdict. In my summing up I have clearly stated the law, and any juryman who obstinately sets his individual opinion against the remaining eleven is totally unfitted for his duties."
THE SOLITARY OBJECTOR—"Please, m'lud, I'm the only man who agrees with you!"
A Time Exposure
A judge's little daughter, who had attended her father's court for the first time, was very much interested in the proceedings. After her return home she told her mother:
"Papa made a speech, and several other men made speeches to twelve men who sat all together, and then these twelve men were put in a dark room to be developed."
During an address to a body of law students ex-President Taft pointed out that too much care cannot be taken in the selection of the jury. In this connection he told of an intelligent-looking farmer who had been examined by both defense and prosecution and was about to be accepted, when the prosecutor chanced to ask: