Show STILL ON THAT VERDICT The announcement previously made in THE HERALD dispatches that one man on the CROXIN jury had his way as against theo the-o her elevenin other words that one twelfth of the jury instead of the whole of it made up the verdict hasbeen fully confirmed con-firmed and what a travesty on justice as relates t the jury system it is I Accounts have since reached us to the effect that another man on thepanel one of the stubborn stub-born elevenis thoroughly disgusted with the whole matter in general and in detail especially in so far as it relates to that particular case and is a decided convert to the scheme for permitting a verdict t be rendered without the unanimous consent of the panel I is also clearly demonstrated demon-strated that What States Attorney LOXOE SECKER said regarding the verdictthat it was a compromise was entirely a correct 1 and proper presentation of the situation While it is undeniably right for jurors to I compromise as to a civil verdict and that II very often more nearly substantial justice I is reached in that way than in any other I the idea of the issues concerning which a mans life is in the balance hanging on the sender thread of a few mens capricious juggling and this brought about by one of their number is a trifle inappropriate i not altogether unseemly and the least bit ghastly Speaking this subject the GlobeDem ocrat is constrained to say that it is unreasonable un-reasonable t say that the opinion of a single sin-gle person in such a matter should finally outweigh the opinion jointly held by eleven others having precisely the same facilities for reaching a sound and fair conclusion The cpurse of justice is fat less likely to be promoted than defeated by a rule so clearly illogical trot to say ridiculous All of our public officers arc chosen an3 all of our current legislation effected by a majority ma-jority vote The higher courts render decisions de-cisions according to the same theory The governor who has an absolute pardoning power may be elected by a plurality of one vote Why then should a different plan prevail only in jury trials t I is notorious that the effect does not justify the doctrine doc-trine Oftener than otherwise it happens that jury verdicts are indefinite inaccurate I and unsatisfactory Society loses more than it gains by reason of such an arrangement arrange-ment Occasionally St Louis cotem I porary is right and it was never more so I than when it gave birth to the foregoing I lines of doctrine lnes The verdict was not the only disgusting thing developed in the CKOSIX case The eager and hotheaded anxiety exhibited by some of the Chicago press t have the defendants de-fendants convicted and hanged after the manner of the anarchists was altogether out of place and partaking not a little cf that bloodthirstiness which can find a place mpre properly anywhere else than in a newspaper office Undoubtedly there were degrees of guilt and to this extent the jury found properly but for the public journals to take it upon themselves to parade the guilt of the accused men while on trial as git previously before the world in general and the Chicago part of it in particular was almost enough of itself to justify the jury going the other way Justice as she is known elsewhere and Chicago ought to be introduced to each other I |