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36. of any such aspect of the duty of the state in the defence of prisoners Birt John Benale takes us notice. The speaks frow the judicial point of view to which "I have before alluded, and from the points of view of the clucidation of inocence, and the clucidation of truth.
37.
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Our criminal statistics I fear show that the elucidation of truth leads more
frequently to proof of guilt than to the utablishment of innocence
38.
The clucidation of the truth is
f the theory of the buglish law the duty of the State in the conduct of the frondation; and so, too, to ferevent the Incidation of buth is the legitimate object of a defines guilly
where
a man is
37. It is most right and proper and according to the dictatio of lumevanity, that the generosity of the State abould to the aid of persons in the bolonies, who, ignorant of our language and lows
tried for capital offences.
come
are
40. But let it be understood that it is out of clarity, and not as a duty, that the State provides all the unaus defence known to our law, and that too, not to elucidate the truth but to defend the accused.
411. I have been lead to these recuarks
brause if this Excellency is prepared to.. carry out Eir John Duale's opinion and ~ establish a practice ( we have seen
that such hitherto ) it is
these has been
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