“My experience is that the most deadly (witness you cun call in any case is the -man who can neither read nor write,” said Mr Justice Blair in the Napier Supreme Court in answer to a submission by Mr L. T. Burnard, counsel for the accused, Albert Edward Habgood, that his client had been placed at a disadvantage in signing a declaration on account of the fact- that lie was not well educated. “You generally find that the higher education a man has had the worse he is as a witness,” His Honor added. '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18163, 10 August 1933, Page 9
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