| Show KISSING THE BOOK juryman jurymen and witnesses still sworn in the old fashion in england ignorance of the provisions of mr Brad laughs oaths act of 1888 is I 1 suppose responsible for the fact that hitherto jury juryman jurymen inen and witnesses have never or hardly ever exercised the power they possess of demanding to he be sworn in the scotch fashion with right hand held aloft instead of by kissing the book says london truth however now that attention has been called to the matter in the press the dirty and dangerous oscillatory method of administering the oath appears likely to be superseded by the more seemly and scotch practice A juryman was sworn in the latter way at liverpool assizes recently and at fulton police court a doctor objected on sanitary grounds to kiss the testament which was handed to him it if court officials C bals were instructed to ask each witness 0 or r juryman J ryman in in which way he would be sworn the nasty custom of kiLs kissing sing the book would soonbo soon be a thing of thelast the past |
