A jury in New South Wales, Australia once returned a verdict of "not guilty" for a man convicted of cow theft provided, the jury said, the man return the cows he had stolen. The judge ordered the jury to return to session to deliberate further. The jurors returned, this time with a verdict of "not guilty" and, they added, the man did not have to return the cows.
Source: Barbara Holland, "Do You Swear That You Will Well and Truly Try...?" Smithsonian, March 1995, 108-117.
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