Statement From the Jury
April 12, 1922
Acquittal is not enough for Roscoe Arbuckle. We feel that a great injustice
has been done him. We feel also that it was only our plain duty to give
him this exoneration, under the evidence, for there was not the slightest
proof adduced to connect him in any way with the commission of a crime.
He was manly throughout the case, and told
a straightforward story on the witness stand, which we all believed.
The happening at the hotel was an unfortunate
affair for which Arbuckle, so the evidence shows, was in no way responsible.
We wish him success and hope that the American
people will take the judgement of fourteen men and women who have sat
listening for thirty-one days to the evidence, that Roscoe Arbuckle is
entirely innocent and free of all blame.
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