There are, as it were, professional common jurors who hang about the Courts in the hope of being thus called as "understudies."
"Bardell v. Pickwick"
Percy Fitzgerald
I have any number of young male understudies, but his majesty has taken a fancy to the girl.
"Si'Wren of the Patriarchs"
Roland Cheney
There were three understudies for his part, so there was not much concern over his non-arrival until he got there with a blood-curdling tale of wrecks and wash-outs that had delayed him twenty-four hours.
"Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days"
Nell Speed