"I asked Judge Holt about it, and he gave this copy of the eighty-second article of war, enacted in 1862, which reads: 'All persons, who in time of war, or of rebellion against the supreme authority of the United States, shall be found lurking or acting as spies in or about any of the fortifications, posts, quarters, or encampments of any of the armies of the United States, or elsewhere, shall be Triable by a general court-martial, or by a military commission, and shall, on conviction, suffer death.
"The Lost Despatch"
Natalie Sumner Lincoln
It was hard to conclude, because there has been a want of uniformity among the States as to the cases Triable by jury, because some have been so incautious as to dispense with this mode of trial in certain cases, therefore the more prudent States shall be reduced to the same level of calamity.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
When people desert their connections, the desertion is a manifest fact, upon which a direct simple issue lies, Triable by plain men.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke