STRAINED LITIGATION.
The perjury cases against the police are disposed of for the present, and we can very heartily endorse the decision arrived at in the lower Court, before the Deputy R.M., Mr Graham. Throughout the whole of the proceedings it has been evident that effort on the part of the prosecution wa3 strained and laboured heavily. Much of the immense mass of evidence adduced was irrelevant to a degree, and much of it intensely partial. The magistrate was actuated by the highest judicial consideration in complacently tolerating
the extreme demands of the prosecution and the extreme differences of counsel. There was much more acerbity displayed than is common in such cases. But no one who followed the evidence could fail to perceive how weak was the case of the prosecution from the beginning. There was no perjury apparent at all, only a great deal of “scamped” detective work. The police, in common parlance, “ made a mess ” of the case, and what they have suffered through this recent perjury prosecution they richly deserved. The case will serve for reference in the future, and the experience of it should be invaluable to the police force of the Colony.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 914, 6 September 1889, Page 28
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197STRAINED LITIGATION. New Zealand Mail, Issue 914, 6 September 1889, Page 28
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