That it was humiliating to live in a town where a self-confessed rascal could snap his fingers at the law and go unwhipped of justice.
The jury's action must have been due either to a wilful disregard of their oath or an entire misconception of it.

Assuming that the jury deliberately declined to obey the law, the whole twelve elected to become, and thereby did become, lawbreakers.

They disqualified themselves forever as talesmen.

No prosecutor in his senses would move a case before a jury which numbered any one of them.

They had arraigned themselves upon the side, and under the standard, of crime.