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dent. Whar you goin' to get a precedent back 0’ that, eh?” In the forty-five years, off and on, Mr. Reynolds has served as a circuit court juror he has acquired considerable philosophy which might be of profit to
found one way, but was made to switch around on the other side just because of what had seemed to it to be unfair dealing at the trial. “Lots of folks think a jury swallows all those high-falutin’ orations of the
attorneys.
lawyers.
“You read in the papers a good deal about what the lawyers say as to ‘im pressions’ on the jury," said "Uncle
guess.
Ebe."
“I want to say this: The jury is
generally with the fellow who is the most frank and honest about putting on
his
case.
When
it
sees
a
lawyer
struggling with all his might to keep something from coming before the jury —claiming it ain't legal evidence-the jury gets curious to know what it was,
and thinks he’s trying to hide some thing he’s afraid of.
The jury can tell
That's where they got another We know what all that talk
means, and if there ain't logic mixed up
with it it don't go. Here's a thing that ought to be brought out: The courts ought to encourage jurymen in the ask ing of questions. Sometimes the lawyers ask their questions in such a roundabout way that you can't tell what the answer
really means.
I once heard a lawyer
ask a witness what he knew about Mr. So-and-so’s character for running after bad women. The witness said, ‘I never knew anything to the contrary,’ and the
awful quick when a lawyer acts smart and tries to bamboozle a witness, and it sympathizes with the witness. I've been
lawyer let it go at that.
on cases where the jury would have
run after badiwomenior not."
In the jury
room there was a free-for-all fight as to whether the witness said Mr. So-and-so
Macon, M0.
Personal Rcminiscences of the .Walhalla Bar II.
A SENSIBLE COUNTER-CHARGE
By R. T. JAYNES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, WALHALLA, S. C. FEW years ago, exact date imma terial,one of the members of our
bar occasionally imbibed too freely. Once he was taken to task by one of his brethren with a view of reforming him. In order to avoid giving offense we use fictitious names. Boon Camp, being very much under the influence of too much drink, is reclining on the edge of the sidewalk on Main street, apparently oblivious of his surroundings. His chum, Joe Smith, who is strictly
sober and reckons temperance as one of his shining virtues, walks up to Boon,
takes him by the hand, and, attempting to raise him from a level to a. perpen
dicular, says :— “Boon, I am so sorry to see you in this fix. Can't you quit drinking?” Boon replies: “Oh (hic) Joe, go away (hic) from me (hic) and let me alone (hie); I am drunk now (hic), and I will get over that; (hic) but you are a fool (bio), and you will never get over that
(hic)."1 ‘ [Reformers may well take this lesson to heart, and try to avoid placing themselves in a position 0 en to similar criticism from conservatives. For tli’ere can be no doubt that for every ninet and nine sinners who reform, there is only one re ormer who truly repents.—Ed.].
