BOOKMAKING CASES.
COMMENT BY CHIEF JUSTICE. When dealing with a bookmaking case in the Wlellington Supreme Court on Tuesday, the Chief Justice (Hon. C. 'P. Skerrett) spoke of the unsatisfalctory administration of the Act relating to bookmakers, and also of the unsatisfactory feature in the law that a man could only be convicted on the unanimous verdict of twelve men sitting on a jury. “We all know,” said His Honour “that the administration of the Act has been very unsatisfactory, and is unsatisfactory. But it will be still more unsatisfactory if jurors are not going to do their duty. You, gentlemen, are just as much judges sitting there as I am sitting here. Indeed, you have much more important functions than I have. I am only here to point out the true light so that you can satisfy yourselves. Indeed, it is most unsatisfactory in our law that no man can be convicted but by the unanimous verdict of twelve men comprising a jury and sitting judicially and endeavouring to do their duty.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3517, 29 July 1926, Page 2
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173BOOKMAKING CASES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3517, 29 July 1926, Page 2
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