No. 115.
10th March, 1869.
Colonial Secretary
From: IG Austin &
To:
Chief Justice (Hon: John Jardine)
Objection of evidence by Action of Government
as to - explained -
Minute 115.6 in Governor Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's Despatch No. 679 of 3 April, 1867.
For:
Minute 584657
Opinion of the Honorable W. Pannell, Attorney General.
The legal question put to me as to the admissibility in Evidence upon Criminal Trials of Statements or confessions made by prisoners in reply to questions put to them by Policemen without any previous caution, is one which has been much discussed in England and Ireland, and recently argued by me in the Supreme Court of this Colony.
The Chief Justice delivered judgment which left the matter...