A NATIONAL CRIME
DISMISSING A JURYMAN Jury service is a privilege and a juror must not be penalised by his employer, an American judge ruled in Superior Court. He fined R. R. Huggins, a railroad trainmaster, £5 and costs and sentenced him to sixty days in gaol for discharging Dorr G. Perrin, a switchman, who was absent from work for twelve days while on jury duty. Huggins gave notice of appeal and was released in £SO bail. ‘ Yoh are guilty of an offence against patriotism,” the judge told Huggins, “a serious charge, not so much from a legal standpoint as from that of Americanism. If such action were general it might tend to demoralise our judicial system. You are now in contempt of court and I pass sentence to make an example of you.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 19
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134A NATIONAL CRIME Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 892, 8 February 1930, Page 19
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