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Provincial Court Land Records, 1709-1719
Volume 720, Page 472   View pdf image
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       without the bounds of Virginia but that all such tryalls and
       Determinations shall be secundum Legem and Consuetudinem
       Angliæ and therefore he ought (and by the Laws of this Colony
       it Self) to have been tryed by a venire of the vicenage where
       the fact was committed Viz.t of Calv.t County in Maryland which he
       was not, therefore the tryall vicious and the same was reinforct
       by his councill
                                  The court overuld the foregoing points for
       that the words of his Majestys Commission of Oyer and Terminer
       are per sacramentum proborum & legalium Hominum de Colonia
       Nostra Virginia
2.dly                        That in all Indictments certainty is required
       that the prisoner ^at^ of the barr may not suffer prejudice for want
       of certainty whereto he may plead and that in the indictment
       whereby he was arreigned there was no specification of the
       river Creek Town Parish or hundred nor of the county nor
       province and therefore the Commission of Oyer and Terminer
       hath not been well pursued in that respect

          To which the court made answer that the indictm.t was as
       certaine as possible Viz.t that the fact was committed on
       board his Majestys Ketch the Quaker in y.e Great Cabbin thereof
       rideing within the Capes of Virginia

3.dly         The Prisoner insisted that the first pannel of the Jurors for
       his tryall did not amount to the number of four and twenty
       persons whereas by the English Laws and Customs that number
       is requisite to make a legall Pannell

             To which it was replied by the court that the pannel is only
       the jury sworne and that an array sometimes consists of
       twenty four sometimes of thirty six that thereby the
       prisoner may have Liberty to make his exceptions ag.t the
       full number allowed by Law if he pleases and that seeing
       no person was admitted and sworne on the Jury of Life and
       death ag.t whome the prisoner Co.l George Talbot excepted
                                                                                        (and)


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