LOST HIS CASE.
BUT MAGISTRATE WAS RIGHT. JUDGE ON WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.)' CHEISTCHURCH, Tuesday. "Avoirdupois has nothing to do with the weight of evidence," declared Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court today. The question of the acceptance of certain evidence by magistrates had cropped up, and hie Honor quoted a case in which he. had appeared ae counsel for the defence. The case was one where a footballer had been charged with using obscene language to a railway guard, said his Honor. The defendant had pleaded not guilty, and in his support the rest of the members of the football team were called, but the magistrate believed the evidence of the guard. "And somehow I think the magistrate was right," added hie Honor, jocularly. Mr. Sargent, appearing ae counsel in the case, remarked that he recently appeared in a licensing case where footballers and four policemen were concerned. In that instance the magistrate believed the footballers.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 11
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160LOST HIS CASE. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 114, 17 May 1933, Page 11
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