HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Petit Jury, Assizes, Jury Selection
21 Jan 2019
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September 28: a history of guns and gun control. Courts in the 17th and 18th centuries: trials were very quick, being a matter of minutes rather than days. However, defendants could defend themselves and cross-examine witnesses: act of parliament of 1696 allows those accused of treason to have a lawyer defend themselves. People didn"t all actually have lawyers, but they were allowed: people thought that defendants could be better evaluated when spoken to and questioned without any preparation, the adversarial process is part of our system today. The defendant is innocent until proven guilty (so the prosecution is responsible for proving otherwise) 1820/1836. There are degrees of truth (probable, more probable, highly probable) Gender: over the age of 21, still not all when could vote until 1919; those who could were war widows, war mothers, and war wives, some states allowed women to sit on juries:
