A CRIMINAL APPEAL
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WELLINGTON, October 12. • Iho Appeal Court to-day are hearing Hex v. Brown and M'Cann. The case turns on a provision in the Crimes Act which enacts that if prisoners choose not to give evidence on their own behalf no adverse comment shall be allowed thereon. In this case respondents were charged with robbery, and did not give evidence, and were convicted aftei the Judge had commented on the fact that they did not go into the box tc contradict the prosecutor. The question for the Court was whether the provision in the Act binds the Judge or only the Crown Prosecutor. If the former, it was admitted that the conviction must bo quashed. Mr Myers appears for thi Crown,\ and Mr Webb for the prisoners.
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Evening Star, Issue 14187, 12 October 1909, Page 6
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132A CRIMINAL APPEAL Evening Star, Issue 14187, 12 October 1909, Page 6
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