COURT CASES.
(Per Press Association.) Dunedin, last night. ' In the oaao of Munro v. Carew, the Chief Justice decided that it would require clear and prooino words to set aside the poouliar and special provisions of the Destitute Persons Act, and oortamly She general words of the Indictable Offonoes Summary Jurisdiction Act do not proposo to do so, but if the charge had come under Section 6 of the lattor Act the Court might have boon compelled to rofuso a mandamus, however absurd and"'anomalous the result might <bavo been. As no offonce was hero charged ho saw no reason why it should bo so-brought-and ordered tho Magistrate to hoar the oase. Christchurch, last night. _ Thomas John Boyd was convicted this coaming of stoaling 20 shoop from G. F. Bullond, Kaikoura, and was admitted to probation for 12 months. Tho judgo regarded this as an exceptional case which justified his allowing probation.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 961, 6 August 1903, Page 3
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151COURT CASES. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 961, 6 August 1903, Page 3
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