GENERAL O’DUFFY
TRIAL BY TRIBUNAL HIGH COURT’S DECISION (Received March 22, 10.30 a.m.) DUBLIN, March 21. The High Court, by a majority verdict, made absolute the conditional order prohibiting the military tribunal trying General O’Duffy on charges ol sedition and incitement to minder, but held the tribunal competent to try him on charges of membership of an unlawful association. Mr, Justice Hanna declared that there were times when the Legislature may legitimately clip the wings of individual freedom and liberty of thought and action, and the population must submit for the general good to strict discipline, but the Attorney-General’s claim that a military tribunal was the superior court was flagrantly extreme. Mr. Justice Hanna criticised the composition of tho military tribunal of three army officers, asking whether they were better qualified than three jurors, between able counsel, to administer the law. General O’Duffy was entitled to trial by jury on the charges of sedition and incitement to murder.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18353, 22 March 1934, Page 7
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158GENERAL O’DUFFY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18353, 22 March 1934, Page 7
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