BLOOD TESTS FOR JUSTICE
AFFILIATION CASES IN BRITAIN (Independent Cable Service) (Received February 9, 11.50 p.m.) LONDON, February 9. The House of Lords gave a second reading to the Bill to make blood tests of mother, child and defendant compulsory in all affiliation cases. Lord Dawson of Penn declared that the Bill was supported by :he scentific world.
Lord Merthyr stated that the tests would show that one-third of accused persons should be exonerated, and would have prevented the notorious case in which a man was imprisoned 19 times rather than pay an order which subsequently was shown to have been granted on perjured evidence.
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Southland Times, Issue 23739, 10 February 1939, Page 7
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