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There was one ease tried dtuitig the term that excited mudi interestin Biloxi,We allude to the charge of attempt atl rape on tin* person of n white child under the age of ten rears, bvFrancis Davis, of Biloxi. Ninety-nine in a hundred people of Biloxi believe Uie charge to be true, and most o the intelligent people of the town who heard the facts detailed to the court have not a single doubt asQimahEoto the truth of the charge. The \oungI* 1 ifeiutinw:cliihl, nine years old, related the facts clearly ,aiu! fully. Her eahn and clear statement carded c mvic- ! th. i . 1 (I ftion to the miiids of oveiybody m theicourtro in, exempt th ' jury, who wmo all (ioubtiug Thomases in the end. •'rnlt;Kunior says when tin* jurors retired thev wen* eleven for eouviciiuu anduLone for acquittal, an 1 so they stood until near tho iniduight hour, wh n.C ‘ J* «in'a? ci correspondent of the N’c r Or-1ans:]ViMiIvi, M:i iikr’ i, \ileans Picayune saw. “the ileas iu the* **couit house dnne them to jam the* one man*for acquilnl because he hada thicker skin than the eleven, and bett ?c able to withstand t he ravages of-dhe Hcas. Doubting Thonuisos are always found on juries in eiiminal rases, and that time-worn and threadbare instruction given by the court iu all cases of a criminal character, “if the jury believes from the exilcheeTthat there is a seasonable doubt of« *the guilt of'the prisoner they must find him not guilty;*’ and in the easementioned the doubt seems #to havebeen resolved by the Heals biting thelegs and bodies of the thin skinnedgentlemen of the jury./ iIf the facts juM’fy the minor, is itnot one more argument for a changein the rule .that it requires the unanimous verdict to convict or acquit.IV 1InElia** tel w i, th;invohI)T( ljUrai•lt;)t nt hiElhrlt;anhnantinn i '
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Biloxi Herald
Biloxi, Mississippi, US
Sat, May 13, 1893
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