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  • It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.

    Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”