DRIVING IT INTO lEGAL HEADS

NZ Truth, Issue 1184, 9 August 1928, Page 8

DRIVING IT INTO IEGAL HEADS

; (Frorii "N.Z. Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative.) •THE witness was explaining what had happened when he, expelled, a ■* nocturnal visitor to his house, under cross-examination by counsel during a trial at the Timarli Supreme Court sessions.. \ y - . ■>' Counsel: You were very excited ?t-No, j kept my head. • ' • :"Surely not,' when you forgot to;, get the. steel instead of the fire ahovel7" The question nettled the witness, who had been under a stiff cross-examination., , : . • ,:. His reply nearly convulsed the court. Heaving himself up mi n the Witness-box, he gave answer. "I would not mind giving you a clo°ut with the flat end of the shovel m similar circumstances," he retorted.* Another counsel then took up the running. A very obscure point was being thrashed to a standstill. .The witness had one version, but counsel could not see it . .., and they argued. \ • ' Finally^ the witness brought, his; fist down on the rail of the box. ."ThaVs just the point," he declared,' "but \. cannot drive.it into you lawyer's heads." . / * ■ : . Counsel; "You .are no* expeotad to drive anything into our headsl"*