COURT SAYINGS
Crown Prosecutor to witness at Parramatta Court: Doesn’t your husband buy his own shirts? Witness: Him! He wouldn’t know the difference between a shirt and a pair of pyjamas. Police Prosecutor, at Campsie (to defendant in traffic case): ,You are charged with not having put out your hand as a signal when you turned your vehicle to the .right. How do you plead ? Defendant: I’m riot pleading. I didn’t put out my hand, so that’s all there is to it. Witness (at Glebe) : When I came on the scene after the he seemed unable to speak to me. Mr D. O’Carroll (solicitor): You suggest he was too “full” for words? Witness (at Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children): On Monday morning I had 45 prescriptions to make up. -Mr Justice Webb: That would be a heavy morning. ■Witness: You’re telling me! Mr Justice Webb: No; you’re telling me.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1938, Page 8
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149COURT SAYINGS Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1938, Page 8
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