Sunday, January 24, 2010

Juries

Subject:  Juries
Quote:  “Men like Archer and his pals would swear to anything.  There’s no believing a word they say.  We know that.  But the public doesn’t, and the jury’s taken from the public, more’s the pity.  They know nothing, and ten to one believe everything that’s said in the witness box, no matter who it is that says it."
Character:  Inspector Slack
Chapter/Story:  25
Book Title/Copyright:  Murder at the Vicarage, 1930 


Subject:  Juries
Quote:  Juries were funny—you never knew what they’d swallow and what they wouldn’t—but let them once get a thing into their heads and no one was ever going to get it out again.
Character:  Mr. Treves
Chapter/Story:  Prologue
Book Title/Copyright:  Towards Zero, 1944