EVIDENCE AMENDMENT BILL.
The Evidence Amendment Bill introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon by the Minister of Justice (the Hon. F. J. Eolleston) and read a first time, is a short measure of two principal clauses. The first amends the Act of 1908 in the direction of enabling an accused person and "the wife or husband of an accused person to give evidence in proceedings before Justices in indictable offences. -, ■ ■ . ■ .'..
The second provides that the wife or husband of a, person charged- with bigamy may be- called as a witness cither for the prosecution or for the defence, and without the consent of the person charged. '
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 8
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