THE JURY AND ITS DEVELOPMENT.

This article presents information on the jury and its development. The article attempt, to trace this earlier history and transmigration more definitely. Author James B. Thayer's more accurate judgments will endeavor to follow the development of the jury through the later seven centuries to our own time. Such an undertaking must be executed in a very summary manner. The characteristic of the jury is that the judge summons a number of the members of the community, selected by him as having presumably a knowledge of the facts in question and takes of them a promise to declare the truth on the questions to be put by him.