Twain mocked the criminal jury as marred by ignorant, uninformed jurors

Evidence

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1440

Categorization

• CANDY: A witty one-liner about jury stupidity, easy to drop in conversation.