Standing aside jnrors

A practice by which, on the drawing of a jury for a criminal trial, the prosecuting officer puis aside a juror, provisionally, until the panel is exhausted, without disclosing his reasons, instead of being required to challenge him and show cause. The statute 33 Edw. I. deprived the crown of the power to challenge jurors without showing cause, aud the practice of standing aside jurors was adopted, in England, as a method of evading its provisions. A similar practice is in use in Pennsylvania. See Warren v. Com., 37 Pa. 54; Zell v. Co.m., 94 Pa. 272; Haines v. Co.m., 100 Pa. 322. But in Missouri, it la said that the words "stand aside" are the usual formula, used in impaneling a jury, for rejecting a juror. State v. Hulls, 106 Mo. 41, 16 S. W. 940.

— Standing by. used in law as implying knowledge, under such circumstances as rendered it the duty of the possessor to communicate it; and it is such knowledge, and not the, mere fact of "standing by," that lays the foundation of responsibility. The phrase does not import an actual presence, "but implies knowledge under such circumstances as to render it the duty of the possessor to communicate it." Anderson v. Hubble, 93 Ind. 573, 47 Am. Rep. 394; Gatling v. Rodman, 6 Ind. 292; Richardson v. Chickering, 41 N. H. 380, 77 Am. Dec. 769; Morrison v. Morrison, 2 Dana (Ky.) 16.

Defined under Stand in Black's Law Dictionary.