Peters v. Jamieson

CONCURRING OPINION OF

WIRTZ, J.

In joining in the opinion of the Court, I wish, however, to stress that the state as well as the defendant has rights in the manner a criminal case is tried. In government under law the state, in order to survive, must have, *266within the framework of its organic law, an effective means of enforcing the rules of conduct laid down for the members of its society for the protection of the community as a whole.

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