Nor
Can
the
Jury qualify their verdict. It must
be Guilty, or else Not Guilty
of the one offence as charged.
"
else
of the
one
offence as charged.
This is obviously a defect: – likely to result in sinister consequences,
With the view of providing for every occasion.
I have ventured to prepare draught Ordinance for poisoning,
and I now submit it to His Excellency; being aware that the Legislative
Council is likely to sit very soon to dispose of the arrears
of its business.
And being deeply impressed with the necessity of some prompt
and effectual remedy for the grave deficiencies which I have pointed out in a law,
soon I fear to be again invoked for the repetition of a heinous crime that, "stalks forward triumphant in impunity, to the dissolution of society amongst us.
It is no imputation upon the framers of the Act of Victoria that they made no effectual provision for