Case Name: The Case of Israel Wadlin
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1814-05
Citations: 10 Tyng 142
Docket Number: 
Parties: The Case of Israel Wadlin.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 11
Pages: 135–135

Head Matter:
The Case of Israel Wadlin.
Where one returned as a grand juror was not present to hear the charge, he was sworn in the form prescribed, and then generally charged to aid the jury in their inquiries into any offences which had been before stated in detail to the jury in the charge of the Court.

Opinion:
I. WADIAN was duly returned as a grand juror for the present term; but by reason of a great flood, which had carried off many of the bridges in this county, he did not arrive at the Court until after the grand jury had been impanelled and charged, and had retired to their chamber. After some consultation upon the bench, he was sworn by order of the Court in the usual form; after which the chief justice very briefly charged him to aid the grand jury in their inquiries into any offences committed within the county, and cognizable by this Court, which had been stated in detail to the grand jury in the charge of the Court when they were impanelled ; and he then joined his fellows.