The Late Criminal Sittings at Wellington.
Before discharging the common jury on Friday morning from farther attendance at the preient sittings of the Supreme Court, h ; s Honor Mr Justice Richmond addressed them as follows : —Gentlemen of the Common Jury,—Before discharging you, I have a ward to say to yon. I say it, you deliberately—in sorrow, not in anger. It is my deliberate opinion that in the criminal sittings yon have just been attending (tbn result has been that the juries have been made fools of—that the Court has been degraded—deeply degraded, and that crima has bean encouraged. Gentlemen, I now discharge you.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1898, 18 October 1886, Page 2
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103The Late Criminal Sittings at Wellington. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1898, 18 October 1886, Page 2
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