The Criminal Law Journal of India January 1927

Many of the hospitals for the insane throughout the country send the younger men on the staff to testify because of the dislike of the older men for the job This procedure serves its immediate pupose in most instances but frequently it fails to make an adequate impression upon the Court as to the possibilities of this -dorm of testimony. [...] Conflicting testimony of experts the desire to twist all crimnology into the field of the abnormal mind and the lack of concise testimony—these complaints on the legal side are arrayed against the countercharges of the psychitrist who sees-nothing in the law but a machine-like routine unnecessaryspeedinup or weary delays in the dealing out of justice and a failure to utilize properly [...] Now whatever the object be and whaever the opinion of some of the members of the Select Committee the present s 526 (8) as it stands now gives absolutely no option to the Magistrate in the matter. [...] AMONG the varied phases of the intrcate sand not to say confusing subject of expert and opinion evidence not the least important as well to the public and the litigant as the witness himself is the amount of compensation to be allowed him. [...] On the other hand in Louisana a District Judge has power not only to determine the compensation of experts but to direct their payment out of the parish treasury; and in the District of Columbia it was held that by virtue of a statute prviding for the payment by the United States of witness fees as costs incident to condemnation of land allowance might be made for the payment of a reasonabl