“ Not Guilty.' l — The Dnnedin ‘Herald’ ha; the following :—There is surely something radicall'ywrong in the administration of our criminal laws when a large number of persons are brought before the Supreme Court session after session, at great inconvenience to themselves and at great expense to the colony, to stand their trial" for crimes of which we must presume they arc innocent. For example, in the whole of the cases tried yesterday, the prisoners! ’ were acquitted. Of those whose sen^kti: Vr were postponed from the previously, a j large proportion had pleaded “ Guilty.”’ r We should like to ascertain who it is that-ft blunders in this matter of prosecuting orpersecuting innocent persons. Is it the police who arrest men because they must have something to show for the money* expended upon them'! Is it the Justices of the Peace or Resident Magistrates, who are
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Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 113, 15 January 1879, Page 2
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144Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 113, 15 January 1879, Page 2
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