Have a jury to be empanelled to try all those questions which are obviously quite unfitted for them?
It is not open to counsel to challenge a prospective juror before he is empanelled.
I am most anxious that the men should have a fair trial before a jury properly and legally empanelled.
In the past, there have been cases where a jury of matrons has been empanelled to decide certain facts.
It is for the prosecuting authorities alone to decide how a prosecution shall proceed and, therefore, whether a jury will be empanelled.
If we had capital punishment, how would it be possible to ensure that a jury could be empanelled, protected and not intimidated?
In those circumstances, why go to the bother of all those poor people being empanelled and being put upon to serve on juries?
The jury was not sworn, but had been empanelled.
