SUPREME COURT.
A CHARGE OF CHILD DESERTION
[Per Press Association.! AUCKLAND, September 9. In tlie Supreme Court this morning Joseph Mansfield Homiston and his wife, who were brought back from Fiji’on a charge of child desertion, came up for sentence. The Judge said he was satisfied no jury would convict the woman, and discharged her. As regards the male accused, he said it was no use keeping people here who •would be a charge upon the community. He was in very bad health, and had committed a very 7 bad offence. He would be ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, and if he did not leave the country with his wife and child in a reasonable time ho would be sentenced.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2603, 10 September 1909, Page 5
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124SUPREME COURT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2603, 10 September 1909, Page 5
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