NEW PLYMOUTH.
This day.
In the Supreme Court Michael McCarthy, charged with perjury in the Resident Magistrate's Court, Patea, came before the Court, when a verdict was returned of not guilty. Judge Richmond remarked that from the number of challenges in the empanelling of the jury, it was almost impossible in a small place to get tn impartial jury. He was apprehensive it would be necessary to have a modification of the jury laws, or justice would be seriously endangered. The remedy, he said, was when a charge was brought against an old settler in a small district, the case should not be tried in that district.
John Frazer Bell pleaded guilty to falsification of the register of a child's birth, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3708, 12 November 1880, Page 2
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128NEW PLYMOUTH. Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3708, 12 November 1880, Page 2
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