Show THE PROFESSIONAL JUROR There Is an evil said to be growing up in this judicial district which ought to be nipped before it increases further fur-ther and brings forth bitter fruit If altentionis paid to the juries that sit on a great number of cases it will be found that for two or three years past the same names appear very frequently frequent-ly It may be that this is not altogether altogeth-er a matter of design but we are in clned to think that there is something some-thing in it more thai chance The law does not contemplate that the same persons shall be called to act as jurors repeatedly but that the burden bur-den and the opportunities shall be distributed dis-tributed among the taxpaying citizens The professional juryman is not a kind of product that is considered a good 1 thing in any community It is not II t right that j men shguld count on such 1 service for a living nor that they shall be known as anxious to make money i in that way In other places such a system has I led to much corruption and a custom has grown up to make almost every petty case one for a jury to sit on so as to secure the fees for the benefit bene-fit of favored persons This leads to jury fixing and that to the defeat of justice and the triumph of fraud It would be well enough to look into this matter and see if complaints which have been made in relation to it are founded on facts Let jury service be divided up and let us avoid the professional pro-fessional juror and anything appr aching ach-ing to jury fixing |