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the Mph of November acquitted on their trial for muniter, before me on a point of Law because the words "Your statement will be taken down in writing and may be used against you" — The Caution by the Police on the occasion of their making a confession — had not been used.
His Excellency says appendix N = 2 there seems to have been a failure of justice by reason of the rejection of evidence and adds by implication a strong expression of his disapproval of the conduct of the Judge on the suggested ground of rejecting of such evidence.
His Excellency says "it is incredible that in this place and under the circumstances in which this colony is placed any judge should have rejected important evidence on the ground stated by Me".
I am greatly mortified and disappointed that His Excellency who has been a Barrister and a Chief Justice should have censured me in language of great severity on the report of a legal person, the chief of the Police, the witness whose testimony I rejected — Inspected CLO — was inadmissible for several reasons, and whose conduct in extorting a confession appeared to me to be such that in England it would have subjected him to severe censure and to the threat of Mr Justice Pattison referred to in 3. Aus on bimes and