COURT HELD IN HOME.
CONVENIENCE OF A WITNESS. BILLIARDS TABLE UTILISED. The inability of an irrjfjortant witness to attend a case heard before Mr. F. K Hunt., S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday morning, caused the sitting to be resumed in the front, room of a North Shore, bungalow in the afternoon. The ordinary Court procedure was strictly observed although, incongruously enough, the officials were grouped round a billiards table. The most remarkable occurrence was when the detective who was acting as Court, orderly at the sitting left the room, stood in the passage, and announced thai the Magistrate s Court was open. The accused remained standing in a theoretical dock throughout the case and the prosecutor, and the counsel conducted their questionings and cross-examination with the utmost formality.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21029, 13 November 1931, Page 12
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