A LIVELY INTERLUDE.
UIiEKZF IN SUPREME COURT
C'OUXSKP AND MFINCH CROSS SWORDS.
WELLINGTON, Aug. 13 tV mild battle of wits between counsel and the learned judge on the Rent'll is not unusual, hut things seldom get so heated as they became for a minute in the Supreme Court yesterday.
Mr A. 11. Soivwriglit was cross-ex-amining a witness in the course of a ease arising out of a motor accident, ami questioning the witness said: How long was it from the time you saw the man standing in the I'otiil until the ear hit him?—l don’t know. Mr Soivwriglit : Yet in the lower court, you said it was a second. New how long was il ? His ilcilntir (Air .Justice MacGregor*: The witness doesn't know, and would he only guessing if he said anything. I should not helieye him in any ease. Mr Seivwnght: 1 hope Your ITenour will give no further credence to the estimates that have been given of the sliced at which the accused’s car was travelling. His Honour: I might not. Now, proceed with your cross-examination, and don’t waste the time of the court further. Air Sivvvriglit : ll was my friend the Crown Prosecutor who opened the i|Uestion of speeds. If is lie who lies been wasting the court’s time. Ill's Honour: All right! Have you more questions to ask? Air Sievwright : I have, but T do contend that the attitude Your Honour is adopting is not quite fair to me. AI y friend has lieen asking these questions about, the speed of the cal', and' every time I start to cross-examine oil the point 1 am pulled up. 1 do not think you are playing the game with me. His Honour: Very well, go on with your cross-examination if you call it such. Air Soivwriglit: Your Honour— His Honour; Kindly go mi with your cToss-examination! And do not he impertinent ! Air Sievwright: Permit tile, your Honour llis Honour (heatedly) :"(!et oil with your examination! I cannot allow this.
Af,r Sievwright (resolutely lacing the Judge): Your Honour
llis Honour (very emphatically): Address yourself to the witness, not to me! Mr Sievwright paused for a moment, und'theu returned to his charge; this time getting on with his plaint before he could lie interrupted: “Your Honour has said that I was impertinent and insulting. 1 do not think that is fair to tile.”
His Honour: I am sorry, hut 1 cannot help it.
Air Sievwright (triumphantly): 1 accept your apology, Your Honour!
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1924, Page 1
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422A LIVELY INTERLUDE. Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1924, Page 1
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