Vol 6 Chapter 24: public trial

The plaintiff and the defendant were placed in front of Trito de Moss. According to the law, since the plaintiff and the defendant do not necessarily understand the Dioria Code, which has a large number of entries, the eloquence is not necessarily good. They can hire a lawyer to conduct a court case. The Polissis, the first to be tried in this case, decided to defend himself. Since the crimes he committed have far exceeded the scope of the original plaintiff (ie, the liberation of slaves), the public prosecutor appointed by the court filed a lawsuit. . And the prosecutor was the former clerk of the Daves, Aristocratic.
After Aristotle's preparation for the Diaonian citizen, Davers suggested that he go to the court to work, and he also successfully passed the assessment, starting from the initial court reporters, working hard while studying Dior. Nigerian law. When he became a full-time citizen of Dionia, he served as a junior judge of the Circuit Court. Over the past year, he has become a new star among the judges of Dionia with a dazzling achievement of "more than 200 cases and disputes." This time, Daves personally will let him be a public prosecutor, and he has high hopes for him.
Since Daves has transformed the later trial system into Dionya, it has been different from the beginning.
To know that the most respected Athens courts of this era have no special judges, only the order officer maintains the court's procedures, and the power of trial is in the hands of the jury, but the jury does not have a fixed number, but according to the size of the case. To determine the number of people, the highest number of jury members can reach more than 2,000 people, and the majority of the votes system will determine the outcome of the trial. Therefore, Athens must have a jury to participate regardless of the size of the case. About three or four thousand citizens travel to and from the courts in the city and the port every day. They are also called by other city-states that "the Athenians are Greeks who love lawsuits."
However, in Dionia, in addition to important cases such as murder, treason, etc., in addition to jury to judge, other civil disputes are generally directly decided by the judge, even if the defendant requires a jury request It is also highly likely that it will be rejected. The reason is that the citizens of the Union of Dionya are busy, military training, field work, market trade, public facilities construction... There is not so much free time to sit in the courtroom and listen to the original defendant telling something that has nothing to do with him.
Because Athens is extremely rich in the city, the jury is compensated by money, and some citizens even make a living, so the citizens are happy to go.
In short, the current strength and financial resources of the country can not afford this time-consuming and costly Athens-style trial, and it is not intended to be implemented. Dionians are affected by their fear of breaking the law, and they are affected by entering the legion, holding public office, and receiving city-state awards. Really big crimes are rare. Therefore, large-scale court trials with such jury are rarely seen by the public. Many people can say that it is the first time to witness the operation of the Dionysian trial.
Victory Square was quickly occupied by the people, and people from the field continued to come...
When the liquid level of the water clock fell to the eight-point scale, Trito de Moss rang the bell of the court.
Since both the plaintiff and the defendant were on the court, the prosecutor made a statement at the beginning. Aristocratic will sue the slave temple, the patrol will be searched by case, and the evidence will be found... After a brief explanation, the evidence will be displayed to the jury, and the Polissis will be accused of illegally occupying the land and restricting others. Freedom and other crimes.
The people in the audience began to have commotion.
Trito de Moss had to ring the clock to remind the people on the scene to remain quiet. Then he signaled that the defendant Polissis could defend.
As a veteran of long-term mixed politics, Polksis is still head-high and keeps his spirits, because he knows that if he shows decadence, he will be considered guilty by the people. At the beginning, although he did not participate in the formulation of the legal trial system, he listened to Davis's whole process of persuading the elders. Therefore, he knew that in the large trial of Dionia, he was acquitted. The key lies in jury. On the group, he said with a warm voice: "Members of the jury, I remember my father, my grandfather at the moment... As one of the earliest founders of the city of Turui, they will all of their own Heart and blood are sprinkled on this piece of land that was once a wilderness, and there will be a city that is prosperous today. I myself have been influenced by my fathers, and I have been making my own efforts for this city since I was an adult. In the same way, farming in the fields, being a soldier, participating in battles, serving as a junior public official, and later being elected by the public as General Tuli, used all the power for this city--"
At this time, Aristocratic stood up and interrupted him: "Pluxis, as one of the former generals of Turui, you should be responsible for the burning of the city of Turui! And in the last city At that time, as a general, you did not lead the people to meet the enemy, but disappeared, but actually dared to say that they paid everything for the city-state! This is not true at all!" Obviously, Aristocratic carefully investigated Polisis in advance. Life.
As soon as he finished speaking, someone in the audience responded: "He is right! I was in the team against the Crotones, and many people died, including Neonsis, but from beginning to end. Haven't seen your silhouette in Polluxs!"
"coward!"
"coward!"
......
Some people started to yell at the audience.

Quiet! Quiet!
Trito de Moss had to ring the bell again to remind the public to remain quiet, and warned:
You two don’t want to talk about topics that are not related to this defense, and come back to the alleged issue. ""
It should be said that because there are not many large-scale court trials in the courts of the Republic of Denia, the experience of young judges like Aristotle is not enough. Otherwise, when Poliques is just opening, protests can be made.
But their initial confrontation attracted the attention of the public. The court is like a battlefield, a slap in the face, and a relationship between life and death. The risk and intensity of the court is far better than watching a drama. The people of Dionia began to open their eyes and looked forward to their more exciting debates.
Politics is quite awkward. Selfishly, he really forgot that he had been a deserter. He wanted to continue to publicize his hard work in the Senate, and there was no such thing. He took a deep look at his opponent and then began to say: "As a veteran of the Dionysian Senate, I have always regarded the governor Daves as an example, responding to Hades's revelation, so I ignored my own. Loss, a large number of slaves to the family, have released 57 slaves so far, and 6 have become official citizens. I think that in addition to Davers, Dainia has a citizen who treats slaves as much as I do. No!" Polluxes looked around, a look of awkwardness.
"The liberated slaves, out of gratitude and reciprocation, will give me some money in return every year. I will resign from their enthusiasm and reluctantly accept it. Because I have more money, I can buy more slaves. Give more slaves to freedom!... Hey, but I never thought that it would be mistaken for corruption by everyone! This is really a huge enthusiasm for me to learn from Daever. The blow! This is a misunderstanding!..." He showed a grievance to the jury.
Aristotle is cold and cold: "Is Corksis so corrupt, ask the judge to allow me to ask witnesses."
Trito de Moss nodded and agreed.
Aristotle has a total of ten witnesses, all of whom are the liberation slaves of Polixis, those who have just been released, those who have become reserve citizens, and those who are already official citizens. These witnesses with citizenship did not want to appear in court but were enforced by the court because it was an obligation of the coalition citizens.
After they swore to Hades God that they would not lie ~EbookFREE.me~ Aristotle to ask questions one by one, one sharper than one. In the meantime, Polksis tried several times to interrupt, but was scolded by Judge Trito De Moss.
The witnesses saw that the situation in Pollux was not good, and they were afraid of being charged with lying. They were sentenced to "sin of God", and all of them were revealed.
Now the people near the wooden platform have already understood: First of all, the location of the land owned by these witnesses has been envied, all the fertile land on the plain of Sobari. We must know that when the alliance was first established, there were too many people. In order to prevent the land from being ridiculous, many of the land was rented by free people and liberated slaves. Later, the renting of the land in Sobari began to be tense, and it was not enough to give it to the reserve citizens. How can the free people rent the species, and the slaves that Polksis had just released can be rented to the good land. This is a very big problem. Up
Secondly, after these witnesses have paid the Union’s tax, they will have to pay 40% of the land income of Polixis;
Once again, witnesses who become full citizens still have to pay 5% of Polis’ own land income each year. Why do formal citizens also give money to him? Because Polluxs bought some people from the Ministry of Agriculture and allocated "parts" to those who became official citizens, they made a lot of one and a half acres when measuring the land. Because their "parts" are often in relatively remote places, they are not easy to be detected. Therefore, these citizens from the Polixis family have benefited, and they are afraid that the Ministry of Agriculture will take back the land when it is spotted every year, and will take the initiative to give Pollux benefits.
When Aristotle was finished, Polksis had already felt the anger of the people in the audience. He hurriedly said: "They are lying! They are lying! I have never done these things, some people are framed. Me! I am afraid that I will shake him against Dionya-"