JURY DISCHARGED
WORKMATES OF ACCUSED JUDGE TELLS A STORY Affer' six witnesses for the Crown had been heard at the trial of an Italian in a Melbourne Court lately on a charge of perjury, the Crown Prosecutor informed Judge Moule that two of the jurors had told him, during the luncheon adjournment, that the prisoner was an old workmate of theirs on the waterfront. Judge Moule: They should have spoken about it before. Naturally, they might feel a certain amount of sympathy for the prisoner. Before discharging the jury and remanding the prisoner for another trial, Judge Moule, amid laughter, recounted this story ajbout biassed jurors: "I remember that the late Judge Box once presided at the trial of a man on a charge of cattle stealing in the country. When the jury had been empanelled, the clerk of the Court whispered to the Judge that'the foreman was an uncle of the prisoner, that two cousins were fellow-jurors and that many of the others, if they had not already stolen cattle, might indulge in cattle stealing."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21580, 26 August 1933, Page 8
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176JURY DISCHARGED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21580, 26 August 1933, Page 8
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