SUPREME COURT.
(FEB UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, This Day. The quarterly session of the Supreme Court opened to-day. Judge Gillies, in bis charge to the Grand Jury stated there were 37 prisoners charged with 29 ofEences, and remarked on the increase of crime in the district, which he found difficult to account for. It was a sigluar fact that when one or two crimes of a particular character happened in a district others followed. He had no doubt that sensational accounts in the newspapers had something to do with it. Such, reports had a pernicious effect on young persons and those of emotional temperament Referring to the Hamilton murder case, he said that while investigating the magistrate had done right in committing prisoners on evidence The grand jury would have to be satisfied that the evidence was sufficient to warrant them in believing prisoners guilty before finding a true hilL They could take no cognisance of any intention to produce further evidence, however serious lhe base or strong the suspicions of guilt.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 61, 17 January 1883, Page 2
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172SUPREME COURT. Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 61, 17 January 1883, Page 2
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