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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18332, 14 February 1920, Page 7

When a charge of cruelty to a horso was being heard in the Magistrate's Court yesterday Mr V. G. Day remarked that by a curious coincidence he had seen the act complained of. The horse had sometimes been dragged on its haunches behind a cart and there had certainly been cruelty. "When this was referred to by tho police later in the ease, counsel for tho defendant pointed out that the Magistrate had not gone into the witness-box. Mr Day said that there was no necessity for that. In olden times the jury had been composed of the witnesses themselvesThat was the early English procedure from which our present judicature had sprung.