DICTION TEST IN COURT
FAILURE OF CONSTABLE INTOXICATION PROSECUTION K When giving evidence of arrest in a Queensland Police Court recently a constable was set a difficult diction test, written- by the counsel for the defence, in a charge against a motorist accused of. being under tho influence of liquor while in charge of a motorcar. In cross-examining the witness counsel wrote on a scrap of paper, "The sea ceaseth and sufficeth us." Medical evidence was called to prove that the accused man had successfully pronounced the whole sentence when examined at the police station several hours after a collision in which ho was alleged to have been involved. The constable failed to correctly enunciate the third word, and on a second attempt misread the word "sufficeth." To.the amusement of tho Court, a doctor, when in the witnessbox, stumbled over the latter half of the sentence, and left it unsaid. Tho magistrate dismissed the case.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22695, 6 April 1937, Page 12
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