petty jury การใช้

• He served on six juries between 1641 and 1663 and twelve petty juries between 1644 and 1670.
• First in 1642 and last in 1662, he was assigned to at least five grand and petty juries.
• Petty juries didn't like charges such as this, especially when death was the pentalty, and it is suggested that the juries where made up of people who sympathised with the Hearts of Oak.
• "This year John Billington the elder ( one that came over with the first ) was arraigned; and both by grand, and petty jury found guilty of willful murder; by plain and notorious evidence.
• The assizes themselves consisted of a judge of the Court of King's Bench, or after the Judicature ( Ireland ) Acts, the High Court of Justice in Ireland, sitting with a petty jury.
• A full Court is made up of a 3-judge panel and a petty jury of 9 jurors ( vs . 12 jurors on appeal ), who, together, render verdicts, and if a conviction is handed down, also determine a sentence.
• If a bill was thrown out, although it could not again be preferred to the grand jury during the same assizes or sessions, it could be preferred at subsequent assizes or sessions, but not in respect of the same offence if a petty jury had returned a verdict.
• They could find a true bill as to the charge in one count, and ignore that in another; or as to one defendant and not as to another; but they could not, like a petty jury, return a special or conditional finding, or select part of a count as true and reject the other part.