Note 539 — Chapter II
Reading edition
See Colledge’s trial. L.C.J. North: “Counsel you cannot have, unless matter of law arises, and that must be propounded by you; and then if it be a matter debatable, the court will assign you counsel; but it must be upon a matter fit to be argued.” 8 State Trials 570. Similarly Jones, J., ibid. 571.
At Sidney’s trial Jeffreys, L.C.J.: “If you assign any particular point of law, then, if the court think it such a point as may be worth the debating, you shall have counsel.”