DO NODS COUNT AS EVIDENCE?
THE WITNESS AND THE QUESTION. "Can you speak English ?" asked Mr. A. Fair in tho Magistrate's Court of a man who appeared to bo a negro. The man did not answer. Mr. Fair: Is Mr. Hindmarsh your solicitor The man nodded, but did not speak. Mr. Hindmarsh: Ho knows that! (Laughter.) Mr. Fair: Havo you property at Newtoirn?—Another nod. "What wages are you getting?"—No answer. "You are working for tho City Council, are you?"—A nod. "Do you get Bs. a day?"—No answer. Mr. 'Fair: I ask for an order, your Worship. His Worship: Why didn't you get an interpreter ? Mr. Fair replied that he did not consider it his duty to get an yiterpreter for tho other side.
His Worship: Suppose tho man is without means?
Mr. Fair: I submit that the onus is always on the debtor to prove that ho is without means. .
Mr. Fair implied that Mr. Hindmarsh ought to have got an interpreter. Mr. Hindmarsh: I thought you had one. His Worship: I will adjourn it a week, and you bring an interpreter, Mr. Fair.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1274, 1 November 1911, Page 4
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184DO NODS COUNT AS EVIDENCE? Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1274, 1 November 1911, Page 4
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