Unnamed Jurors

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The phrase "Grand Jury" suggests "something" "secret" and "of a hidden and unsleeping and omnipotent eye" to Percy Grimm's platoon of peace-keepers (456). In the narrative the "Grand Jury" that is empaneled to consider the charges against Joe Christmas does remain mysterious. The narrator, for example, says that "the Grand Jury . . . indicts" Christmas, which is the customary task of a Grand Jury (421), but the same narrator says that this Jury is meeting "to take the life of a man whom few of them had ever seen to know, for having taken the life of a woman whom even fewer of them had known to see" (416). Finding guilt and meting out punishment are customarily the tasks of a trial jury.

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