CO129-181 - Governor Hennessy - 1878 [1-8] — Page 351

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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

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on them, and that