CRIMINAL APPEAL.
e NEW SOUTH WALES BILL. By Tolcgraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, July 6., 'Mr. Holman, ■ Acting-State Premier, in moving in the Assembly the second reading of the Criminal Appeal Bill, said its main features followed the recentlypassed English law. Tho measure provides for Supreme and District Court Judges to sit in a new court, which .is to he ready to'hear appeals, against convictions at short notice. ,The Bill further proposes that the Supreme Court Bench shall; be saddled with tho responsibility of deciding whether death sentences shall be carried out. i ' Mr. Wade, Leader of the Opposition, strongly opposed the last-named provision, as being likely to drag the Judges into a position which might involve them in conflict with the public.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1173, 7 July 1911, Page 5
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