THE DUTY OF JURIES
HOW TO SECURE DECREASE IN CRIME.
By Telegraph-Press Association. Wanganui, May 25. The treatment of prisoners and. the Now Zealand prison system generally, were the subjects of interesting remark* bv Sir Robert Stout (Chief Justice) when addressing tho grand jury at the Supremo Court to-day. Referring to the recommendation by tho Auckland jury that iloEKUig bo administered to those guilty of sexual offences. Sir Robert Stout said he considered flogging was a brutalising method, only snitablo to brutal types. The responsibility did not rest with tho Judges, but on the juries, who should bo careful in tho administration of justice to see that feelings of mercy did not influence thorn to acquit where the evi--1 donee was clear. If they sternly, but humanely, carried out their duties crime would decline in their district. Jurymen had fo sec that the law was carefully and humanely administered, s& thereby crime would decline. If it were possible to got the peoplo to realiso that prison was not a place of honour but <m ethical hospital, tlien would they realiso the task before them in trying to reduce crime.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 206, 26 May 1920, Page 6
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189THE DUTY OF JURIES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 206, 26 May 1920, Page 6
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