How mystified must be many of those who have to face the Bench by the language of the Courts. The other day it was a woman at Acton, asked: “Are you guilty or not guilty?” and answering: “I’m Caroline Tupper, sir!” And later a prisoner at Cardiff, asked by the Judge what he meant by “King’s evidence,” replies: “Speaking the truth, my lord.” Not a bad answer in its way. This notion of truth as what the King expects is salutary. ft suggests, however, a painful view of “prisoner’s evidence,”
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7, 6 May 1912, Page 5
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90Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7, 6 May 1912, Page 5
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