ATTENDANCE ON JURIES.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I was summoned on the jury for the Criminal Session of the Supreme Court just r ended. I therefore attended on Monday and Tuesday. I was one of those ■ empaniielled in, four different cases. In three I was'challenged' by Mr. Atcheson, the Inspector of Police ; on the other occasion he was not in Court, and I went through the duty unchallenged. Pray can you, o}' any of your readers, inform me of what-use it can be to the public, or of what justice to a working man like myself, that he should be made to lose two days' work, only to be marked as unfit to. fill a seat in the jury box ? Surely some arrangement might be arrived at by which a person summoned to serve on the jury, to whom the Inspector of Police entertains so decided an objection, should be at once dismissed to his ordinary employment.—l have, &c, Richard Jenkins.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4228, 8 October 1874, Page 2
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