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Ilis counsel strove valiantly on. the instigator's belall, culcavour-
(Boing an extinct from a puporing, to prove that. ho silver
onTho Development of the
catullo-sticks and tenservice Judicial Systom rond before" | reforred to ` had not
been the unpeting of the British -
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But it must not be thought that this tremendous change of front wasn'thing of sudden appearance, Like all deeply routed modifiga- tions, of human institutions its growth was gradual and unsus pected.
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purchased by the instigator himself, but had been left him by n decoused up, and thint it was merely from sentimental reasons. that he had hesitated to convert them into cash and subscribo the money derived therefor to the National Pension Fund for the Provoked. He stated that his "The eliont would have been only too The famous, plen of the then delighted to prosent their value to Mr. Sips Jinda iho. Inttor rising barrister, Jawkins, which
him,
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737] subjoet-proviously This wrol- in the history of our crimal feed quibble obviously, carríod procedure, could not have little weight with the jury, mnde until somewhere about 1930. But as early as tho en fof the first particularly whon the instigators devido of the twentieth century and it transpired that held al- provious record-wasnounced, that feeling of public sympathy for what were then tord the criminal classes, which was oven- tually to be epitomisist in that: Justly calebrated plen, lade very noticeable.
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dy served several langish sen- touges for other flagrant cases of instigation.
rosexquined, the...prusalem said that he was very especially entitles to the jury's sympathy, time that he had been the object inasunch as this was the seventh
premeslitated instigation with
It was already openly declarat by some that the criminal was in degree rosponsible for his actions, and was therefore object
the last eighteen months. rathor for compassion than punisja-
(Murmurs of sympathy) He was mont, A sort of official support to this theory was lent by thot as young as he had been, and those Tarossant appearances in Troquent remission of sentence to witness box, oven on a mission the authority of the highest officials in this land, and of public interest such as this,. went on juriesoyerywhere bersing were becoming very trying. Ho less anxious to constet, and publie
pleaded for an exemplary suntince on the instigator. opinion more and more set against anything save the very mildest forms of probationary detention. Then, like thunder clap, can Jawkins' famous dofener 7
The jury without retiring brought in a verdict of guilty, will a strong recommendation i severity,
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"It is," he is said odia vo sláts The judge, in passing selfoner, ed, "by this time giggratly ac sail that there was no, donla bui knowledged that my client is a that this was a Taust serious gitse man doserving of the warmost of instigation. Hore they had the THE sympathy as one who is not res provoked, obviously from his re ponsible for his actions. But to cord a man whose temperament admit that is not sufficient.
Tudo-him peculiarly open jp thesu ask you, gontlemen of the jury, vicious attieks, called into court whether the true ignominy and in the interest of public justice for responsibility for the erimo does the seventh time within a your mollie at the door of y ander bald, and a half. “Against this cruel patod reprobato, from whose fab wrong and injustice the prisoner. poekot the gold watch in questionPolifonly plead tata spntinental 981) was retnoyed ? For if the in-interest had causal fin to retain .stíbitor of these procendings hud - possession of the articles in ques- not in the first insture possessed "Ugn, and that, had the provukod the gold watch, surely it is-sulli.applied whim in the first instamee eiently obvious that my client he would have been pleased to could not have removed it)
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have insulteil him by the offer of a' |-brila,Au-to the extrema-paltvi not think that it was nocossary ness of both these excuses he did for him to say nothing.
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This flawless argument, which. provides the basis of our present judicial system, fell on men's ears with the gree of an axion that: And hitherto, owing to some extra-
The prisoner's record was a ordinary nulvertency, escaped damning one. According to actual sistemont, but which only evidence furnished, by the polico nooded formulation to Go univor- | he had been sentencal no fewer sally accepted.
thap furteen times for instiga- Henes wo find that inuediately tons of varying severity, Ap- it became the established estoparently the instigator's career, evor since he lud, been old
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