These twelve to be unobnoxious to the party or parties concerned; their peers; and previously unbiased touching the matter at issue.

Furthermore, that unanimity in these twelve should be indispensable to a verdict; and no dinner be vouchsafed till unanimity came.
Loud and long laughed King Media in scorn.
"This be your judge," he cried, swaying his scepter.

"What! are twelve wise men more wise than one?
or will twelve fools, put together, make one sage?
Are twelve honest men more honest than one?
or twelve knaves less knavish than one?
And if, of twelve men, three be fools, and three wise, three knaves, and three upright, how obtain real unanimity from such?
"But if twelve judges be better than one, then are twelve hundred better than twelve.

But take the whole populace for a judge, and you will long wait for a unanimous verdict.
"If upon a thing dubious, there be little unanimity in the conflicting opinions of one man's mind, how expect it in the uproar of twelve puzzled brains?
though much unanimity be found in twelve hungry stomachs.
"Judges unobnoxious to the accused! Apply it to a criminal case.

Ha! ha! if peradventure a Cacti be rejected, because he had seen the accused commit the crime for which he is arraigned.