PROTECTING ACCUSED
QUESTIONS ON CONVICTIONS The fact that an accused man, who enters a witness box to testify, cannot be examined concerning his previous convictions without the sanction of the presiding judge, was emphasised by Mr. Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court yesterday. His Honour commented upon the suggestion that once a man had been convicted that fact was not allowed to be forgotten in a court of law, but, said his Honour, that was not the case. “If a man gives evidence and holds himself out as a truthful witness, and he turns out to be a man with convictions for dishonesty against him, it is only right that the jury should know the character of the man they are asked to believe. For that reason only is the Crown Prosecutor allowed to crossexamine a person about his previous convictions.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 730, 1 August 1929, Page 18
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141PROTECTING ACCUSED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 730, 1 August 1929, Page 18
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