JUDGE'S CONFESSION

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11951, 23 May 1933, Page 3

JUDGE'S CONFESSION

LOST IHS CASE

BUT MAGISTRATE WAS RIGHT

- -“Avoirdupois has nothing to do with the weight- of evidence.” declared Air Justice Blair in ibe Christciiunn Supreme Court. The question of the acceptance of certain evidence by magistrates had cyopp?d up, and Ids Honor quoted a case in which he had appeared as counsel for the defence.

The case was one- where a footballer had been charged with using obscene language to a railway guard, said his Honor. The defendant- had -pleaded not guilty, and in his suppart the rest of Tie members of the football team wore called, but the magstrato believed the evidence of lie guard. “And somehow I ihi,nk the magistrate, was right,” added his Honor, jocularly. Air Sargent, appearing ns counsel in the case,-remarked that lie recently appeared in a t licensing case where footballers and four policemen were concerned. In that instance tlio magistrate believed the footballers.