General Discussion

The judge charged a jury after a case and sent them to deliberate. While they were deliberating the judge went into his chambers, had coffee and spilled it all over his pants, so he sent an aide to the dry cleaners across the street from the court house with his pants and the jury suddenly announced it had reached a verdict. So rather than wait until his pants were returned he put on his robes and went out into the court room to receive the verdict with his bare legs sticking out under the bottom of his robe. He wasn't punished for it but it was the talk of the court house for quite a while.