Mistrial Declared After Jury Finds Defendant Guilty, March 5, 1925

A mistrial was declared by a judge in an East St. Louis court recently when a jury that did not know the difference between the legal terms “defendant” and “plaintiff” brought in a verdict for the defendant. “We wanted to give the verdict to the little light-haired fellow,” said the jury. He was the plaintiff.

From page 5 of The Beaufort News, Thursday, March 5, 1925

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