CROWN PROSECUTIONS.
To the Editor of the Globe. SIE, —Referring to your first leader of Tuesday, April 2nd, although agreeing with the latter part, as to Crown prosecutions being worked by a more experienced person ns lo law than the pol ce, in the fUst Hart you are wrong. You speak about “ the discovery of an important fliw in the indictments,” and further down you say, “ Had an indictment with a wrong description passed, and the prisoner been convicted, the chances are that the ends of justice would have been defeated.” Now, sir, you are entirely wrong in your law, as the very youngest law student knows that by the 21th section of 14 and 15 Victoria, c. 100. it is enacted that “ No indictment for any offence shall be held insufficient f >r want of a proper venue.” Therefore, even if some of the indictments had gone to the petit jury, and the prisoner been convicted, such conviction could not have been upset for the reason you have stated. Yours, &c, A JURYMAN. Southbridge, sth April, 1878.
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Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1265, 8 April 1878, Page 3
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