RESPONSIBILITY TO STATE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 191, 15 July 1941, Page 5

RESPONSIBILITY TO STATE.

CHIEF JUSTICES WARNING

'•You have a serious responsibility to the State, because, if the accused ha* done this, then there should be no hesitation in convicting her, salt the Chief Justice (lit. Hon Sir Michael Myers) in the Supreme Court, ytsterdav, when addressing the jury in a case concerning a woman, one count being of manslaughter and another ot using an instrument with a certain '"-The Empire is in a life and death struggle, from which we hope and pray it will emerge victorious. Let us assume that it does-how long do you suppose a nation will last if it allows its pcopk to kill off their children before birth How long do you think o nat on vill survive if that habit is PC«™"*" ••1 shall warn you in a moment, because of the importance of this case that you must be careful U«"I tinning the importance of it because we hear so much in this class of case about, 'you have not brought everybody concerned before the Court, andl wly convict this one?'. If. that is to be allowed by juries it is not going to be a good thing tor the nation I make that observation only for the purpose of asking you to be carefii, not to allow yourselves to be swayed by the kind of clap-trap we sometimes hear outside the Court.'