Jurywomen

A jury of women was given in two cases, viz., on writ de ventre inspidendo, in which case the jury was made up of men and women, but the search is made by the latter (1 Madd. 11; 2 P. Wms. 591); and where pregnancy was pleaded by condemned criminal in delay of execution, in which case a jury of twelve discreet women was formed, and on their returning a verdict of enseinte, the execution was delayed till birth, and sometimes the punishment commuted to perpetual exile. But if the criminal be privement enseinte, and not "quick," there is no respite. 2 Hale, P. C. 412. As to time of quickening, see 1 Beck, Med. Jur. 229.