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Attorney and Counsel to prisoners in Capital cases.
2.
agree
M. Snowden does not entirely with Sir John Smale's views and
with mine in this matter, and he was avisions, as a letter of Sir John Smale's on the subject had been printed in a recent Gazette, that his argument
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the other side should also be published in the Government Gazette. Pruck for reasons communicated to him in
my reply, I was unable to do this.
3. As regards the difference of opinion
between the Chief Justice and the Acting Chief Justice, I find that all the Mccribers of the bar in
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may popable be
be assigned to defend prisoners concus with me in supporting the former. Sis John Smale has been able to point to the that innocent men have
fact been sentenced to death in Stoughtong
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owing to the imperfect defence Counsel alone is, in this community,
able to prepare; and the case
now reporting
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views of the Chief Justice) shows how nccepary it is to have the defence put fully before the Court
4. Ja
am lorry Mr Snowden
should have allowed himself to write his letter of
the 25th a Su
of
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