“INVITES BLASPHEMY”
MAGISTRATE SAYS OATH IS HARMFUL ABOLITION URGED Reed. 10.55 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. A stipendiary magistrate, Mr. McMahon, at the conclusion of a case in the Redfern Court, said the oath which is administered to witnesses in court is a blasphemous formality. “I suppose 95 per cent, of the witnesses are untruthful, and the oath is simply inviting them to commit blasphemy,” he said. “I think it would be very much ; better if the oath were abolished. It would make no difference to justice.” i
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1078, 16 September 1930, Page 9
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