The Power Of Judges To Punish For Contempt Of Court As Exemplified By The Case Of The High Sheriff Of Dublin 1882

Author : Gray Indemnity Committee
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333473815
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Judges to Punish for Contempt of Court written by Gray Indemnity Committee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Power of Judges to Punish for Contempt of Court: As Exemplified by the Case of the High Sheriff of Dublin, 1882 It has been argued that Mr. Gray, as High Sheriff, was responsible for the care of the jury. N o doubt, he was nominally responsible; but was he criminally re sponsible He had been in London for days before the trial. As is shown by the correspondence between him and the judge (p. He had the judge's sanction for his absence. He spoke in the House of Commons on the Irish Postal Contract on the evening the jury was locked up, and did not return until after the jury were discharged. Nevertheless, Judge Lawson said more than once that he held Mr. Gray personally responsible for the care of the jury, although policemen and bailiffs were sworn by the court to take charge of them Mr. Gray was not in Dublin at all at the time. Some English journals have gone so far as to suggest that Mr. Gray, as Sheriff, connived at the selection of a special hotel, which they call a Land League hotel, in order to entrap the jury, and that the whole affair was a conspiracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.