Sentence examples for juryman from inspiring English sources
noun
One who is impaneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror.
Bailiffs led jurors to jury room where foreman wanted to take immediate vote ofGuilty Discussion was opened, and each juryman gave his opinion.
He also wrote to the senior Treasury counsel at the Old Bailey: "Now that the sensible practice of jury fixing is out in the open thanks to the irresponsible behaviour of the Guardian, I would like to nominate myself as a rigged juryman in certain trials.
One timid juryman holds out.
See Mill (1861, 353-354 e.g., at 354: "His vote is not a thing in which he has an option; it has no more to do with his personal wishes than the verdict of a juryman.
His technique in winning a case against the evidence is exemplified by Pro Cluentio, a speech in an inordinately complex murder trial; Cicero later boasted of "throwing dust in the jurymen's eyes".
He then read the first chapter of the Book of Genesis and told the jurymen it was their duty to determine whether the law had been violated.
A two-year-old boy sitting beside the Judge drew the names of the jurymen out of the box.
It took the twelve jurymen at Sumner, Mississippi, just 67 minutes to return an acquittal in the trial of the two white men accused of murdering a 14-year-old Negro boy who whistled at a white woman.
To me, the jurymen looked well built and well groomed; and they stayed awake, which is the first and most difficult task of a juror, although they, like the attorneys, kept their coats on when the heat was a damp, embracing fever.
District Attorney Hogan questioned a couple of prospective jurymen & women-gives reasons for their being excused.
The jurymen had been out only five hours and a quarter, and they would have had to stay out much longer than that before all of them would have consented to a conviction; and they would have had to stay out much longer before they could have announced that they had failed to agree.
