It is not uncommon for men to judge a cause before they have heard the
facts:
Lord Eldon said, “I remember Mr. Justice Gould trying a case
at York, and when he had proceeded for about two hours, he
observed, ‘Here are only eleven jurymen; where is the twelfth?’
‘Please you, my lord,’ said one of the eleven, ‘he is gone
away about some business, but he has left his verdict with
me.’”--CROAKE JAMES, “Curiosities of Law and Lawyers.”
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