CONSTABLE GREAVES' TROUBLES.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13057, 17 March 1911, Page 2

CONSTABLE GREAVES' TROUBLES.

THE JUDGE'S SUMMING UP

PROTEST AGAINST "SNAPSHOTTING."

(Received March 16, 10.10 p m ) London, March 10. Constable* Greaves, cross examined admitted that ho was twice suspended, firstly for complaining of his sergeant, and secondly for making sup. posed untrue statements to a superintendent. Thereafter ha was transferred to another division.

Mr Justice Darling, in summing up, endorsed the jury's protest against the indiscriminate "snapshotting" of those engaged in the trial. It was far graven- when people were permitted to photograph prisoners not yet identified by those having testified against them. Such photographs might be seen by possibly uncertain witnesses inducing them to swear to identification which otherwise they would be unable to do. Morrison was thus photograph, ed when he was merely remanded on suspicion. This practice was obviously injurious to the prosecution and calculated to frustrate the, whole ends of justice.

The jury was absent for 35 minutes. Mr Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, in reply to a question, said tho matter of "snapshotting" at trials was under consideration.