JURIES AMENDMENT BILL.
DEFEATED ONi SECOND READ- - im In the House on Thursday night, the second reading of the Juries Amendment Bill, the measure which the Hon. John McGregor, of .the Legislative Council, has tried for years to have made law. The \Elill provided that a live-sixths majority might be accepted in criminal cases, except capital cases and that a trial might be continued, notwithstanding that the jury might be reduced m number, v The-Bill received the support of 4 nearly all the Reformers, but a few Voted against it, and the second rea'diu"- was defeated by votes to " / '
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2772, 16 August 1924, Page 3
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99JURIES AMENDMENT BILL. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2772, 16 August 1924, Page 3
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