MAJORITY VERDICT BY JURIES
PRIVATE MEMBER’S BILL READ THE FIRST TIME (THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter .) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Juries Amendment Bill, sponsored by Mr. J. Mason, was read the first time to-day. It provides for a verdict of a five-sixths majority of the jury after three hours’ deliberation, in criminal cases, except for capital offences, providing there is no probability of a unanimous verdict being reached. A judge is given power to direct a trial to proceed, except in capital offences, if a jury is reduced in number through illness or death.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 1
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