DON’T INTERRUPT!
JUDGE REBUKES COUNSEL A breezy passage of words, in which Mr. R. A. Sipger was tartly rebuked by Mr. Justice Herdman, enlivened the eonclLision of a criminal trial in the Supreme Court this morning. In the midst of his summing up, Mr. Singer interjected, “There are 12,000 employees on the railway.” “Will you be good enough not to interrupt me, Mu. Singer,” exploded his Honour. “Xoli havo had an opportunity of addressing the jury, and there your duty ends. It is not the practice of counsel to interrupt judges.” A further clash occurred at the conclusion of the summing up, when Mr. Singer asked his Honour to submit to the jury that counsel had not SLiggested that a girl in the case was committing perjury. CoLinsel argued that he had contended that the girl might have been mistaken. “I don’t think it is necessary,”- retorted his Honour. “The girl is definite and deliberate in her statement.” “Will your Honour decline to submit the point, or shall I?” “I don’t think it necessary,” turning to the jury—“Will you be good enough to retire?”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 731, 2 August 1929, Page 11
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