SNAP SHOTTING AT TRIALS CONDEMNED.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 65, 17 March 1911, Page 5

SNAP SHOTTING AT TRIALS CONDEMNED.

(Received March 16, 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. Greaves was cross-examined, and admitted being twice, suspended': firstly, for complaining of hie sergeant, arid secondly for making a supposed untrue statement to the sfupex*intondont. He wias afterwards transferred to another division.

Mr Justice Darling, in summing up, endorsed the jury's protest against the indiscriminate snap-shotting of those at the trial. It was far graver when people were permitted to photograph, prisoners not yet identified by those having testified against them. Such, photographs might be* seen by possibly uncertain witnesses, inducing them to swear to identification, which they might otherwise be unaDle to do. Morrison was thus photographed when merely remanded on suspicion. The practice obviously was injurious to the prosecution, and calculated to frustrate tb/s whole ends of justice.

The jury were absent 35 minutes

Mr Churchill, in the House of Commons, in reply to a question, saidi the question of snap-shotting at trials was under consideration.

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