CROWN PROSECUTIONS.
To the Editor of the EVENING Stab. Sir, —■'Will you kindly when you have space, timo and opportunity give me a little enlightenment on a point of public interest. Suppose a charge for forgery, embezzlement of funds, or any other ofience against a public community were carried on by the Crown, is it usual for that Crown to accent private subscriptions to carry out the prosecution, and is there any precedent within your knowledge of such a proceeding ? I write to ask the question as possibly the parties sosubscvibiugmay be onthe grand jury to find a true bill, or on a common jnry to try the ease. In fact, can a prosecutor, fora subscriber is doubtless one ;—can a prosecutor sit on a jury to try his own case ?—I am, &c, An Old Id-entity. [It is certainly not usual for the Crown to send, round the hat for any purpose.. It would, however not be an unusual thing for private parties if prosecuting in the public interest, or supposed public interest to do so ; and we think it would be not unwarranted Certainly an evil is apparent in the possibility ot subscribers being on the jury, and we are aware of a case in which the venue of a trial was changed on tne grounds of such subscription.—Ed. E.S.]
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Auckland Star, Volume III, Issue 812, 24 August 1872, Page 3
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