COURT OF APPEAL.
A CONVICTION QUASHED
I I’icn PitERB Association. l WELLINGTON, October 21. The case of Rex. v. Smith came before the Appeal Court to-day. It was shown that John William Smith had made a written declaration of the loss of a pawn ticket under the Justices of the Peace Act, but the words “and by virtue of the Justices of the Peace Act” which ought to have followed, were omitted. The jury had convicted him of making a false declaration, and the Court was now asked to determine whether the declaration was valid. The Court held that, as an essential part of tlie prescribed form had been omitted, it was not a declaration under the Act, and, as the accused bad been convicted of making a false declaration under that Act, the conviction must be quashed.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2639, 22 October 1909, Page 7
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138COURT OF APPEAL. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2639, 22 October 1909, Page 7
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