PRETTY WOMEN AND JURIES.
"IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN VERDICT."
(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)
CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday,
In certain cases a jury's verdict could not be accepted as decisive, said Mr. C. A. Treadwell in the course of an argument in the Supreme Court to-day. He recalled a case in which a woman's attitude and sobbing had been suggested by Mr. Justice Hosking as having had a probable effect on the jury.
"In that case I learnt, myself," said Mr. Treadwell, "that it is practically impossible to obtain from a common jury a verdict against a pretty woman who cries at the right times."
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 28, 2 February 1928, Page 22
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