When a Supreme Court jury retires to consider its verdict, the exhibits in the case go to the jury room. As the jury was leaving the box in the Dunedin Supreme Court recently a Crown solicitor, Mr J. B. Deaker, laughingly indicated to Mr Justice Fell two bottles of beer which still stood on the registrar’s desk. “I think you had better reserve the beer until you have finished driving, gentlemen,” the Judge advised the jury. The charge before the Court was of intoxication in charge of a car and of causing bodily harm.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26493, 7 August 1951, Page 5
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