Note 138 — Chapter XV

The correctness of Mr. O’Rapley’s views may be vouched for by a newspaper report in the Evening Standard of April 17th, 1883, which was as follows:—“Mr. Justice Day in charging the Grand Jury at the Manchester Spring Assizes yesterday, expressed his disagreement with the opinion of other Judges in favour of the Commission being so altered that the Judge would have to ‘deliver all the prisoners detained in gaol,’ and regarded it as a waste of the Judge’s time that he should have to try a case in which a woman was indicted for stealing a shawl worth three-and-ninepence, or a prisoner charged with stealing two mutton pies and two ounces of bacon.”