In re the Freeholders of the Towns of Madrid, Waddington & Louisville

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• a criminal trial to an unsworn jury “was, in effect, no more than a trial by mob”
• “[A] conviction by an unsworn jury is a mere nullity . . . .”
• “[A] conviction by an unsworn jury is a mere nullity .. ..”
• “[A] conviction by an unsworn jury is a mere nullity, of which the accused could not, upon a subsequent arraignment, avail himself by a plea of autre fois convict.”
• in criminal cases, “a total failure to swear the jury is a matter which cannot, in any manner or under any circumstances, be waived; and, as a consequence, a conviction by an unsworn jury is a mere nullity”
• \`[T]he fact of swearing [the jurors] must appear on the record'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).