MR. J. McLEOD (Sutherland)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether he is aware that in a case now pending in the Sheriff Court of Sutherland at Dornoch, in which proof has been partly heard at Dornoch, the continued diet of proof was fixed to take place at Tain, in the county of Ross, and witnesses cited to appear there; and whether any recent precedent for such procedure can be stated?
§ *THE LORD ADVOCATE (Sir CHARLES PEARSON (Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities)The statement in the Question is substantially correct. So far as I am aware, there is no precedent for the step that was taken by the Sheriff-Substitute, and I have requested the Sheriff of the county to call for an explanation.