Southern Christian Advocate

Lord Chief Justice Campbell And A WELSH Jury.--In a case tried the other day, at the Denbigh Assizes. the jury having been some time in considering their verdict when the case was really a very clear one, the judge told them that once when the jury had refused to convict a prisoner who had made a plain confession, a learned judge whom he just remembered --Chief Baron Macdonald--thus addressed the prisoner, "Prisoner, go and be honest, for your character is now so bad that the jury won't convict you, because they can't believe your confession." His lordship struck his hand on the bench with some violence while repeating Judge Macdonald's words, which were evidently intended as a reproof to the jury.