JUROR EXCUSED
AN UNUSUAL REASON.
MELBOURNE, August 21
An unusual reason was given by a man who asked to be excused from jury service in Melbourne recently. He told the Judge that he felt that he could not serve as a juror with an unbiassed mind, and that short of seeing the actual happening on which lie might be asked to judge a man, he would not convict.
The man added that he had once been associated with a trial in which someone had been deprived of his livelihood and most of liis money by a. de- 1 cisipn given on false evidence, and that the verdict had been responsible for the death of another person. . > Judge Williams.‘tsaid ' that- in those circumstances he thought to exouse the juror, which he, dildi :
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1933, Page 7
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131JUROR EXCUSED Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1933, Page 7
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