Not Guilty--But return the horse

[A. Maberry]

Hmmm, when I first heard this it involved a Welshman and a Welsh jury, not
the US frontier. It might just be one of those fill-in-the-blanks stories
with an infinite variety of locales and things stolen.

allen
maberry at u.washington.edu


 On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    From the NEW YORK PRESS, August 7-13, 2002, pg. 14, col. 1:
>
>    (Although the "letter of admonition" that New Jersey Democrat Bob
> Torricelli received last week from the Senate Ethics Committee is a blow to
> Republicans.  It constitutes a slap on the wrist and a green light for the
> fall election.  As Torch's Virginia Republican colleague George Allen says,
> it's a verdict of Not-guilty-but-you-have-to-return-the-horse.)
>
>   This is listed on the web as "old west justice."  It's about the trial of a
> horse thief who stole from someone the people didn't like.  The first jury
> verdict was "Not guilty--but you have to return the horse."  The judge threw
> that out and told the jury to decide again.  So the jury came back with "Not
> guilty--and you can keep the horse!"
>    Did Fred Shapiro write about this verdict?  Does it show up on WestLaw?
>