VINDICATING JUSTICE
CIRCUIT COURT ABOLISHED UNRELIABLE JURIES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, February 4. (Received February 4, at 1 p.m.) The Government has decided that Innisfail, in North Queensland, shall be deprived of its circuit court sitting. The Attorney-General, in a statement, said that it had been represented to him on several occasions that a section of the jurors at Jnmisfail had proved averse to bringing in verdicts of guilty, and that intimidation had been resorted to in some cases. A Supreme Court judge had investigated the position, and reported that he regarded the. allegations as true, and recommended that tho circuit court at Innisfail be abolished. Tho Government had therefore decided that it had no option but to deprive innisfail of the court.
This is the second time in the history of Queensland that such an action has been taken, the Government over fifty years ago having deprived Roma of the privilege in connection with an alleged cattle-stealing case, when the jury failed to convict, despite evidence which the Crown held was indisputable. The Roma case was inspired by the plot in Rolfe Boldrewood's hook ‘ Robbery Under Arms.’
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Evening Star, Issue 19474, 4 February 1927, Page 6
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188VINDICATING JUSTICE Evening Star, Issue 19474, 4 February 1927, Page 6
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