JURY AND COURT
MUTUAL COXFIDENCE DESIRABLE.
WELLINGTON, Nov. 1. “Jt is highly desirable that there should be mutual confidence between the jury and the Court. The stronger that confidence is, the less likely it is, in my op ipi on, that miscarriages of justice will occur.” This observation was made by the Chief Justice (Hon. M. Myers), in the Supreme Court, yesterday, when passing sentence on Norris Frank Davey, who had keen found guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, on a charge of having indecently assaulted a. male. His Honour stated that he intended to give the fullest effect he could to the recommendation, and that he would do so for more than one reatoi'i —firstly because he agreed with it, and also because he thought the Court should always give effect to such recommendations. Ho did not consider that the ease was one for probation, and he proposed to order prisoner to come up for sentence, if called uipon, within two years.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1929, Page 8
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164JURY AND COURT Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1929, Page 8
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