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Show iwwm -Awm:i vi iBtrni raiBium i nw in wiwiiiii nwni imiihibiibii ti ai said that if tho mere opportunity for prejudice and corruption was to raise a presumption that they exist, it would be hard to maintain jury trials. As to the coat incident, the justice would forbid a jury even to look at a prisoner and compare his features with a photograph. JURORS MAY READ NEWSPAPERS. A man's constitutional rights are not necessarily violated because be-cause jurymen, trying him on a charge of murder, are allowed to separate sep-arate and to read newspapers during the trial, it was held in a recent re-cent decision by the supreme court of the United States. The court held similarly in regard to the refusal of a judge to send the jury out of the court room during arguments on the ad- mission of evidence. Furthermore the court laid down the rule that the act of requiring requir-ing the accused to put on a coat, alleged to have been worn when the crime was committed, did not amount to "requiring the prisoner to testify against himself." In announcing the opinion of the court Justice Holmes says the trial judge had gone to the limit in the exercise of his discretion during dur-ing the trial, but that he had committed no reversible error. "No doubt the moro conservative course," said Justice Holmes, "is to exclude the jury duriug the consideration of th9 admissibility of confessions, but there is force in the judge's view that if the juries are fit to play the part assigned to them by our law, they will bo able to do what a judge has to do every time he tries a case on the facts without them, and we cannot say that he was wrong in thinking that the men before him were competent for their task." In reerard to the jury separating during the trial, Justice Holmes |