The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-01-20
TWELVE MEN
STAND TEST
Challenges Might
Make Heavy
Draft.
Drunkenness Will be
One of Geneau's
Oefenses.
Order to Keep Newspapers From
Jurors-Various Court
Items.

Three jurors passed for cause out OF
seventeen examined yesterday for the
trial of E. NJ. Jones for murder in the
first degree. If this is to be the pro-
portion of success in examining jul
rors to fill vacancies made by perenlp-
| tory challenges and all of the eighteen
| challenges allowed be exercised, it Will
| require the examination of 102 more
| jurors to obtain jury.
In getting the first twelve passed for
| cause, however, the proportion has not
| been so high. Besides Judge Robin
sons original panel of sixteen a special
venire for fifty men was returned.
When, shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon the twelfth man had passed
| examination for cause five names were
left unarawn from those summons.
The twelve men passed are E. T.
Dreier, T. P. OBrien, Richard Wee
| don. z. E. Hartman, A. Winterstein,
w. J. England, A. j. TAFT, Harry Rtv-
ers, Harry A. Juen, Stanley Stephen
son. Kenneth F. Brown and Fred Tur-
rill.
When the trial is resumed at 10
o'clock this morning peremptory chaI-
leges will be in order, the prosecu-
ton being allowed six and the defense
twelve The privilege is exercised al
ternately, the defense excusing two for
every one the prosecution excuses.
Either side may waive the privilege
when it's turn comes, each waiver re-
ducing the number of it's challenges
by one
TWELFTH MANS PHILOSOPHY.
q think everybody is crazy, more or
less
Fred Turrill, the twelfth man passed.
gave the foregoing opinion as one of
his replies on the question OF insanity
This juror considerably relieved the
monotony of the inquisition by his crisp
the warmest ordeals administered dur
ing the proceedings.
Mr.. Turrill would believe a newspa-
per report of an event until it was
contradicted with proof. because it was
to the interest of a newspaper to make
and sustain reputation for accuracy.
Notwithstanding any opinion he might
have formed he would as juror, rem
der a verdict according to the evidence
and the law. The law he would take
from the court, whatever his previous
views thereon might have been. Even
if morally convinced that the defendant
was guilty he would give a verdict of
acquittal unless the prosecution proved
guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
DEFENSE OF DRUNKENNESS
Drunkenness will be one of the de-
lenses of E. Geneau in his trial for the
murder of Ulysses S. Harris. This was
declared by Mr.. Douthitt yesterday
afternoon, when Mr.. Andrews object
ed to questioning Theo. A. Simpson,
on s-eXamination, about the de-
PENDANTS condition when he entered
the Pantheon saloon on June 80 last
and shot Harris.
The objection was sustained because
the prosecution had asked the witness
nothing about Geneaus condition as
to sobriety, the court agreeing with
the Attorney General that the defense
would have to make Simpson its own
witness before examining him in that
regard.
The prosecution rested it's case at
p. m, when the trial was continued
until 10 o'clock this morning.
KENNARD WAS LATE.
Kennard, the negro witness called on
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