They were originally witnesses from the vicinage; so that, if you go back to the very cradle of our jurisprudence, you find jurors nothing but witnesses: and now I insist that they must come under the same rule as witnesses.
Sumner argues that historically, jurors were originally witnesses, and thus should be treated under the same rules.
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