ABOLITION OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
* GRAND JURY’S PRESENTMENT (P.A.) NAPIER, November 3. The Chief Justice (the Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers), in the Supreme Court, in answer to a presentment at the last sessions in Napier to the effect that the grand jury should not be called to serve unless there was business for it, said that the grand jury was rightly called on such occasions, as it was the grand jury’s prerogative to make presentments. For instance, a .New Plymouth jury had spoken against the repeal of capital punishment. It was the duty of the grand jury to watch the results of experimental legislation, of which there would be more during the war period. The jury returned with a presentment that the jury doubted the wisdom of doing away with capital punishment
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23477, 4 November 1941, Page 8
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