DUTY OF JURIES.
TO UPHOLD BRITISH JUSTICE. JUDGE’S EXHORTATION. In his summing up in a sheep-steal-ing case at Hamilton yesterday afternoon, Mr Justice Ostler remarked that one of the distinguishing characteristics of British justice which made it different from all other forms of civilisation was that it caused respect for law and order and the safety of life and property. That characteristic could only be maintained if juries were prepared to do their duty. He therefore appealed to the jury, if they were convinced that prisoner in this case was guilty, not to allow any such consideration that prisoner’s wife had been sick, that after all only sheep were stolen, or any other such thing to sway them in returning a verdict according to their convictions.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17803, 30 August 1929, Page 6
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126DUTY OF JURIES. Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17803, 30 August 1929, Page 6
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