Reluctant Jurors.
WHEN A JURY was being empanelled at the Supreme Court at New Plymouth for the hearing of a civil action, some of the jurors took an umisuallv long time in entering the jury box. apparently in the hope of being challenged by counsel. Mr Justice Callan asked that they should step more smartly into their places. " I can assure you,” he said, “ that members of the Bar make their challenges after very careful inquiry over several days, and not on your sudden appearance.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20648, 24 June 1935, Page 6
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