Show Miscarriage or Justice New York 20 Worlds London The summer assizes are now being held throughoutIreland and owing to the lax l jury law known as the OHagan actthere are many flagrant instances of the miscarriage mis-carriage of justice In some cases the jury with the view probably oi insulting the judge announce before his lordships charge that they have made up their minds to a verdict of riot guilty The evidence of the crime disregarded and a verdict of not guilty returned If the crown case is absolutely conclusive of the prisoners guilt the jury generally fail to agree Two years ago a prisoner was tried at Ennis for murdering Mr Creagh a land agent the gun had exploded and blown off one of the accuseds fingers the man was put in the dock it was shown that he had dogged Creagh during the night His ownership of the gun was established the finger blown off by the explosion was produced and shown to be the finger missing from the prisoners pri-soners hand and the jury aequitted him without leaving the box Cases almost as barefaced are now occurring particularly parti-cularly at the assizes in Connaught and Munster and it is understood that the judges will make an unanimous report in favor of stringent Amendments to the iury law |