FACTS, NOT FANCIES, MUSTR RULE
■;> (Prom" N.Z. Truth's" Special- Aucklandßepresentative). "TO convict or not to convict?" that is the question. And the answer « - -*,' , means a good deal to the man m the dock. So much, m fact, that * It behoves every witness for the prosecution to' be positive that the J fapts he gives m evidence against the person charged are indeed facts. •■ "It was'about a quarter of. a mile," said Constable Hanna casually, 1 But:in reality the distance was approximately only two hundred yards! > "The case was one against a .young ship's officer, Norman Helm* y . : Turner, who was charged at Auckland with converting* a car to his .1 own use, and it resulted m his; being fined £10. .The escapade may have been a "piece of stupidity," as his counsel, t V Mr. All?n v Moody, suggested, but what of the action of the constable t 'who called two hundred yards a quarter of a mile?, t
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NZ Truth, Issue 1216, 21 March 1929, Page 7
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