CONDUCT OF COURT CASE
JUDGE SHOCKED. “WISH I GOULD STOP IT.” “There is no redemption, even tn heU, if a man is to. be asked questions like that!" That was the heated comment by Judge Scholes, in the District Court, Sydney, during the hearing of a jury action for breach of an advertising contract. One of the witnesses being crossexamined by Mr Rooney, counsel for the defendant, was asked if it were a fact that he had undergone imprisonment for three years. “Yes,” was the reply, “hut that was about 25 years ago, when 1 was 20 years of age.” It was then that *he judge felt impelled to make his remark. Counsel also asked the witness about other offences with which he had been charged. The answers were that he had repaid certain moneys when he came out of gaol. He had been proved innocent of other charges. Ilis Honour: If a charge has been brought against a man and a jury has acquitted him, is that man to have that charge brought up against him?
“I am shocked at such questions, but have not the power to stop them. L cannot stop them. I wish I could.” A little later His Honour remarked that he had never seen a case conducted like it in his life.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17220, 1 October 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)
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