Select JUDGES (Judices selecti), in Antiquity, were persons summoned by the praetor to give their verdict in criminal matters in the Roman courts, as juries do in ours. No person could be regularly admitted into this number till he was twenty-five years of age. The Sortitio Judicium, or impanelling of the jury, was the office of the Judex Questionis, and was performed after both parties had come into court, each having a right to reject or challenge whomsoever he pleased. The number of the Judices selecti varied, according to the nature of the charge. When the proper number appeared, they were sworn, took their places in the subsellia, and heard the trial.