CO129-157 - Sir MacDonnell Acting Governor Sir Kennedy - 1872 [4-5] — Page 367

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on such occasions

I offer ... Bank, with

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ance of the language add ignorance of in which their trials are conducted an imperfect and only gain knowledge of what is going on, through interpreters. - "The common run of trials" says "Mr. Stephen passes somewhat this; "I'en a twelve monthard Clowns" "looking # as an eminent advocate once "observed" like overdriven cattle are "crowded together in the dock. Their "minds are confounded by formulas about challenging the jury standing "in their deliverance, and pleading "to the indictment; the case is "opened, and the witnesses called by L a man to whom the whole process "has become "whose 2. 535 a mere routine, and very coolness must confuse, "and bewilder ignorant and "interested jurors after the witnesses "has been examined, comes a scene. which most lawyers know by heart, "but which I can never bear without pain "till a X. X.X.. Scarcely any ignorant person can story of the simplest kind "without irrelevant details, and "omissions caused by the assumption "that what they know themselves is "equally well known to others. Judges after have not the patience to sift out "the grain of wheat from the bushels "of chaff which are on such occasions I offer ... Bank, with
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ence of the language

add ignorance of

in which their brials are conducted

an unperfect

and only gain Knowledge of what is going on,

through interpreters. -

"The Common run of brials " says "Mr. Stephen pases somewhat this;

"Ien a twelve anothard Clowns" "looking

#

as an eminent advocate once

"observed" like overdriven Cattle are

"

'crowded together in the dock. Their

"minds are confounded by formulas about challenging the Jury standing "in their deliverance, and pleading "to the indictment; the case is "opened, and the witnesses called by

L

a

man to whom the whole proces

་་

"has become

"whose

2.

535

a mere routine, and

very coolness must confuse, "and bewilder ignorant and "interested hemvers after the withes

" has been examined, comes a scene.

which most lawyers know by heart, "but which I can never bear without- pain

"till a

X. X.X..

Stardly any ignnant person san

story of the simplest Kiná

" without irrelevant details, and "omissions caused by the assumption " that what they know themselves is " equally well known to others. Judges after have not the patience to sift out "the grain of wheat from the busher's "of chaff which are

on such recisions

i ofer monet Bank, with

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