A CHARGE OF PERJURY.
(Per Press Association.) NAPIER, last night. In a case in which a Justice of the Peace was charged at the Magistrate’s Court to-day with perjury, the accused made the somewhat unusual defence that the evidence which formed the subject of the charge referred to a time when he was intoxicated, and that his evidence had not been knowingly false. Tho Magistrate, in dismissing the case, said he thought, however, that it was a very extraordinary thing that a person who had to get out of a serious offence like this by the defence that he was drunk and did not know what he was doing should hold a commission of the peace, and lie would have to consider seriously whether to make representations to the Department about tho matter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2051, 11 April 1907, Page 2
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133A CHARGE OF PERJURY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2051, 11 April 1907, Page 2
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