The functions of a jury were thus outlined by his Honor Mr Justice Henniston at the Supremo Court at Christchurch. “No barrister should make an address to a jury/* he said, ‘ ‘winch he would not make to the Judge. Anything that is addressed to a jury that would not be addressed to a Judge is inferentially an insult to the jury. A jury is a body of judges sitting to try the facts of a case just as, in the absence of a jury, a Judge sitting alone is a Judge of the facts of the case. A jury, just in the same way as a Judge, should bo open to no appeal to other than judicial feelings, and counsel has no business to make such an appeal.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8354, 14 February 1913, Page 6
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128Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8354, 14 February 1913, Page 6
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