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SUPREME COURT. " ' '
fitti-v:: in dancv.
(Before the Chief Justice Mr. Justice JUgi».
botbr.rj and Mr, Justice Williams.)
Tuesday, 6tu snrikmirau.
Re Dn. Jackson. — An application "w;ts uiauo
by Mr. Purvcs on behalf of Dr. Cecil Jacuson,
who is now awaiting trial for the manslaughter
of Miss Maitland-Hilder, to change the venue
from the Castlemaine Assize Court to the Central
Criminal Court at Melbourne, or to any other
eoort that might be determined on, on the grounu
that public feeling had been excited in tha
Mary borough and Castlemaino districts to such
au extent as would prevent a fair trial oi tho
accused. Tho newspapers iu the district
were produced containing conspicuous re
ports of the coroner's inquest and other
details, copies of which had been circulated over
the district, and even during the adjournment of
the inquiry Dr. Jackson was burnt in effigy. Mr.
Cbomley, who opposed the application on behalf
of tho Ctown, was not called upou. The court
refused tho application on the ground that before
such a serious reflection should bo cast on tho
jurors in any district, it ought to he made clearly
apparent by something more than mere news
paper comments, especially where the dis
trict in question was one adjacent to that in
which the actual occurrence took place, tbat
a fair trial could not be had.
Fletcixer v. Bczoltcr. — This was an applica
tion for anew trial, on the ground that the former
verdict was against the weight of evidence, lho
case arose out of tbe iinproi>cr carrying out of
apprenticeship indentures, and was tried in the
County Court, when a verdict for the defendant
was entered. Jud?mont was reserved.
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