NEW CODE OF LAWS, 
189 
Concerning the Jury . 
1. No man shall be tried for any great crime without a 
Jury, There shall always be a jury, excepting in minor 
offences, quarrels, &c. 
2. When a man is tried for any crime, the judge shall 
select six men to be a jury, men of integrity shall he 
select; they shall mark or hear attentively the untwisting 
or investigation (of the matter.) When the evidence and 
examination are ended, the jury shall confer privately 
on the statements and evidence they have heard during 
the trial, the words of the accusers, and the words of the 
accused, with the evidence or testimony of the witnesses. 
If they unitedly think the person tried is really guilty, 
that he committed the crime (there having been the evi¬ 
dence of two credible witnesses,) and if they agree that 
he is guilty, one of their number shall address the judge, 
saying, This man is really guilty. Then shall the judge 
pronounce the sentence upon the criminal; the sentence 
written in the law shall he pronounce. But if the whole 
of the jury think the man accused is not guilty, then one 
of their number shall say, There is no guilt. If it be one 
of the king’s family that is tried, then the jury shall be 
members of the reigning family, (or individuals also of 
equal rank :) if a landed proprietor or farmer that is tried, 
of landed proprietors or farmers, only, shall the jury be 
composed. 
3. If during the trial the jury desire to put any question 
to the prisoner, or to the witnesses, it is right they should 
do so. 
4. If the accused person observes any one on the jury, 
whom he knows to be a cruel or evil-minded man, or a 
man of whom his heart does not approve, it will be right 
for him to say to the judge, “ Remove that man, let him 
not be on the jury.” Then shall the judge seek another 
man in the place of one so removed, and shall proceed in 
the trial of the accused. If it be two or three on the jury, 
of whom the prisoner does not in his heart approve, they 
shall be removed ; but in reference to four, or the whole 
jury, it will be improper. When two are removed, two 
others the judge must seek; when three, then must the 
judge seek to fill the place of those removed, and then 
judge the person accused. 
Concerning the Messengers of the Magistrates. 
Their duties.—This is the duty of the messenger, (or 
peace-officer.) When a man is accused to a magistrate, 
