Referring to Mr. Maguire's behaviour inthe charge room, Mr. Newman suggested that the cause of the whole trouble between defendant and witness had been that Mr. Maguire pointed out the error in the warrant. Witness denied that he was angry at being caught napping. In describing his treatment at Mr. Maguire's hands, witness said that he had been pushed violently and the boy taken away.
"That is a criminal offence, is it not?" asked counsel, Witneso admitted it, "Then why did you wait 11 day before bringing a charge of assault?"
Mr, Badeley: The charge hustling the police—a purely technical assault.
His Honour intervened to say that M. Henri had been to him but, not knowing British law, had been unable to word the charge, which partly accounted for the delay, Further questions were put to witness regarding the nature of the "violence" shown by Mr. Magui and whether it justified witness's handcuffing defendant. "You completely lost your temper," suggested Mr. Newman, "I pat it'to you that the sole reason was that Mr.
Maguire lay back and laughed at, ridiculed, you." This witness denied,
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