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"hand the depositions to Counsel.
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and for him to defend a prisoner
at a fixed fee, with them only
as his instructions, is a mere
delcsion. All
require
are
"of
grounds of defence to be ferretted out. They
often unknown or unthought
ever
by the accused. All
this is painfully impressed
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my memory by the fact that
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four absolutely
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innocent men
" were once convicted of murder
"through conspiracy, by their
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conviction, to obtain
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an-
advertised
reward. They would have been
excented but that an accident postponed the
day of excention.
His Excellency deeply regretted
to find that on the occasion now
under consideration the Court did.
not adopt the course
advocated by Sir John
appointing
so
strongly
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both Solicitor and Counsel.
but provided Counsel only for the
prisoner.
The necessity for the employment
of a Solicitor was shown in this instance by the fact that no m
adequate steps had been taken to the statement of the
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prisoner made before the Coroner, that he
had been attacked by
women with
his onslaught
a
sickle
one
of the
to
prior
on them, and that