After a long and heated jury trial, the jury announced they were hopelessly deadlocked. When the lone holdout juror was asked why he voted to acquit, he said the evidence was too circumstantial. When told that he could convict someone on circumstantial evidence, he said that he would never do so.
He told the story that one day he was in Sunday School and the teacher asked the class with what did Simon slay the Phillistine? The teacher called on me and I didn't know, but the boy behind me whispered the answer in my ear, so I said with great pride, "He jobbed him in the ass!" I was sent home and my daddy whipped me good, so I swore I would never convict anyone on circumstantial evidence.
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