Good Men and True

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 176, 15 October 1927, Page 27 (Supplement)

Good Men and True

JURORS DO NOT LIKE THEIR SUMMER HOLI- j DAYS INTERFERED WITH

MANY EXCUSES

There are always a few’ men who strive hard to have their names erased from the jury lists at criminal sessions. Many and varied excuses are placed before the judges at times, but the period in which the registrar of the Supreme Court is besieged with requests to be excused is for the first quarterly sessions in February. The good men and true do not like their holidays interfered with, even though they have been called upon to see that justice is meted out. It is perhaps just as well that the judges of the Supreme Court require a very convincing reason before they will permit a juryman to be excused. It is certainly a tiresome proceeding to sit in the court throughout the day, but a little fellow-feeling towards the unfortunates in the dock would show a finer spirit. So those jurors who complain that “I will be away with the wife and children,” or ‘‘lt’s my only chance to get out of town,” had better think of a more potent excuse, otherwise they will have to take their places with the rest.