O"Mara is right about one thing, " he said, putting his large hands on the jury-box railing. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (2006)
It is not enough simply to prove that the man committed the murder, but to make the jury violently angry against him, and cause them to shudder in the jury-box, as he exposes the horrid details of the crime. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The lawyer cocked an eyebrow at him and stroked her moustache, a distinctive gesture that you could see in any number of courtv archives of famous civil-rights battles, typically just before she unloaded both barrels at the jury-box and set one or another of her many precedents. ❋ Unknown (2003)
His hand reaching in twelve times drew out the names of the twelve jurymen, who as their names were called, were ordered to take their places in the jury-box. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Steger suddenly turned from the jury-box and walked to his seat beside Cowperwood, while Shannon arose, calm, forceful, vigorous, much younger. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Meanwhile the great argument had been begun in the jury-room, and all the points that had been meditatively speculated upon in the jury-box were now being openly discussed. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Putting his hands on the jury-box rail, he began in a very quiet, modest, but impressive way: ❋ Unknown (2004)
It did not suffice that they too should be man and wife as thoroughly as any whom God had joined together, if twelve men assembled together in a jury-box should say otherwise. ❋ Unknown (2004)
When the jury-box was finally full, the two lawyers waited for the clerk to bring them the small board upon which slips of paper bearing the names of the twelve jurors were fastened in rows in order of their selection — jurors one, two, and three being in the first row; four, five, and six in the second, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2004)
No! The men in the jury-box may decide how they will. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Mr. Chaffanbrass was famous for these little silent addresses to the jury-box. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Alice looked at the jury-box, and saw that, in her haste, she had put the Lizard in head downwards, and the poor little thing was waving its tail about in a melancholy way, being quite unable to move. ❋ Unknown (2003)
‘Oh, I beg your pardon!’ she exclaimed in a tone of great dismay, and began picking them up again as quickly as she could, for the accident of the goldfish kept running in her head, and she had a vague sort of idea that they must be collected at once and put back into the jury-box, or they would die. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Their position, in comparison with the electors, is that of the audience in a court of justice, compared with the twelve men in the jury-box. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Of all gregarious animals man is the most tardy in getting acquainted: meet them for the first time in a jury-box, a stage-coach, or the cabin of a ship, and they always remind me of ❋ Various (N/A)
Higher and stronger surged the tide of passionate eloquence, until every one felt that the icy barrier was beginning to yield, -- for tears were already seen on more than one of the faces now leaning breathlessly forward from the jury-box to listen, -- when all at once a dead silence fell throughout the hall: the voice whose organ-tones had been filling its remotest nook suddenly died away in a strange gurgle. ❋ Various (N/A)
The case is thrown into the jury-box, to be decided at haphazard, according as the twelve men may chance to think or feel. ❋ George Sharswood (N/A)
The freedom of the jury-box from extraneous influences is a matter of such vital moment in our system that the courts are bound to watch over it with jealous eyes. ❋ George Sharswood (N/A)
He wishes neither to put himself in suspense in a jury-box, nor a murderer so in a sheriff's box that the murderer shall finally be put in suspense. ❋ Various (N/A)
