USE OF BIBLE IN COURT
WITNESS’S SURPRISING
OBJECTION
Dominion Special Service. Dunedin, January 23.
“I’ll no swear lies ,on the Bible," was the startling exclamation of a female witness in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. when called upon to take the usual oath. The Magistrate informed the witness that she was being asked to tell the truth, not lies, whereupon sh'e explained that what she meant to say was that she refused to use the Holy Bible for the purpose of refuting lies told by the other, side. “I won’t open the Bible in a Court,” she went on. “I read the Holy Word on Sundays, I adore the Bible and I won’t use it to swear on it.” The witness eventually took the oath in the alternative manner. ’ A wordy defence followed, but judgment went against her.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 102, 24 January 1930, Page 10
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