The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1888-09-28

necessary to be inquired into by a travers,
jury without examining further witnesses
your foreman will then write upon the fac'
Of the Indictment IA true bill," and sign 1
as foreman.
You will go on examining these Witness
co given you on the back of the indictment,
until 12 Of your number are thus satished
II after examining all these witnesses, ~
of you are not satisfied that the case is ont
that should be returned TO this court foi
trial, you will then have your foreman
mark on the face OF the indictment mot o
true BILL" and sign 1t as foreman. You
cannot return bill not true bill, until
you have examined all the witnesses, whose
names are written on the back of the indict-
ment. You can return bill true bill,
without examining all the witnesses thus
written, when you are satisfied without ex-
amiDing further. AT no time can you
make any return, unless at least twelve Of
your number so agree.
II you return bill, ia true BILL" you
have nothing to say about costs; when you
'NhuAh JIM NV ttuC phi thCh 1Ou ioOh
at the indictment, whether the crime charg-
ed is a felony OF misdemeanor; felony
is always to be determined by the use Of
the words felony or ieloniously In the body
of the indictment, the District Attorney
generally marks on the face of the indict-
ment "misdemeanor" or "felony" as the
case may be. II the crime charged is a
felony, you still have nothing to say about
cost If however, the crime charged is a
misdemeanor, then you must dispose of the
costs, by placing them either upon the
county or the prosecutor, and If you place
them upon the prosecutor, you must name
him In your finding. AS you pass upon
these bills, you will as rapidly as possible
bring your return into court.
In addition to these things given you in
charge, you have been sworn to diligently
inquire OF such things as you may know to
be presentable here; that is, If any one Of
you shall know of any offence against the
law not brought to your attention by the
court, 1t is your duty to present it to the
court, who will issue the proper process TO
bring the offender before the court. This
knowledge on your part must be acquired
in one of three ways, by either your own
observation, by your investigation of other
offences or by the disclosure of your asso.
ciates. That is, if any of you has witness
ed a violation of the law, if in investigating
any offence iu your room, you should be-
come acquainted with some other offence,
or If some one Of your associates should
disclose such offence to you, then in any
such case 1t will be your duty to make the
same known to the court.
To enable you to act effectively, the law
requires that all your deliberations shall be
in secret; hence you have sworn, that the
commonwealth's counsel, your fellows and
your own yon will keep secret. You are
to be influenced by no malice, hatred or
envy; you are to be deferred from no duty
by fear, favor or reward; knowing no
enemy, recognizing no friend, oblitering
all distinction of person or of class, swayed
by no passion and moved by no favor, yon
are to look upon all defendants as innocent
until evidence establishes the probability
Of guilt and then regardless of conse
quences and bent only on the performance
of duty you are to act intelligently, fear
lessly and conscientiously.
The cases that will be brought before
you are for the most part of such char
acter that you need no special instruction
in regard to them. One may perhaps re-
quire some explanation.
One of these indictments will charge the
violation of the liquor laws. The sale of
liquor is regulated by law. No person has
a right to sell any in this county unless
licensed by this court; any sale without
such license is misdemeanor punishable
as provided by law, and whether with or
without license, no person has right to
furnish by sale, gift or otherwise, to any
person, any spirituous, vinous, malt or
brewed liquors, on any day upon which
elections are now or hereafter may be held,
nor on Sunday, nor at any time to a minor
or person of known intemperste habits,
or person visibly affected by intoxicating
drink, either for his or her use, or for the
use of any other person.
The indictment which will come before
you will charge the defendant with furnish
ing intoxicating liquors to a person of
known Incorporate habits.
This case, gentleman, you will judge as
any other case. The court and jury find
certain laws upon the statute books; il is
their duty to see that those laws are enforc-
ed; as individuals, some of you may deem
the liquor laws too stringent, others OF you
may feel that they are not stringent
enough; some may believe in one kind of
legislation, some in another; these views
you have right to hold and to maintain in
your daily life, but you dare not carry them
iato the jury box; there one duty confronts
all, and there is no room for differences
no matter what your individual views may
be, as l have before instructed you, your
plain duty is to determine whether law
has been violated; If 30, no prejudice
against the law should sway you; IL no
violation of law is shown, no prejudice
against the liquor traffic should influence
you. Violations Of the liquor law should
be judged by rules in no respect different
from other cases.
You will take this and all other cases
submitted to you and endeavor to do that
which right and justice require and which
your oath commands.
There is one matter, not exactly in the
line of instruction to you yet subject OF
great public interest, and one the consider.
alton of which has led the court to establish
rule important to all, which we desire
briefly to allude to, and in this public way
make known the rule, with the reasons that
have led to its adoption, beside giving the
public information that will enable them
to act intelligently in the matter.
Among the grave questions that to-day
confront the American people none are
more important and upon none hang more
serious results than the one as to receiving
aliens into citizenship, 1t is feared there
are many numbered as citizens to-day, and
many daily being received as such, who
are ignorant of the first principles of oul
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