§ MR. M'FADDEN (Donegal, E.)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland whether he will state the reason for withholding payment from Daniel Duffy, of Raphoe, County Donegal, of the expenses to which he was entitled for attending as a witness at Londonderry Petty Sessions, in the case of the King versus Doherty and others, returned for trial at last winter Assizes in Belfast.
§ MR. ATKINSONDuffy having made a statement to the police favourable to the prosecution, was summoned as a witness by the Crown. When, however, he was interviewed by the police before the hearing at Petty Sessions he not only receded, from his former statement, but went over to the defence, and was examined for the accused and gave evidence in contradiction of his first statement. The Crown accordingly declined to order any payment to be made to him for his attendance at Petty Sessions as a Crown witness.