MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE.
By telegraph we learn that the case of the^French girl serjitencedjby iMir*Ha.kdoastle, trie Wellington R.M., to a month's imprisonment with hard labour for larcony ; of an article of apparel,' has been brought before Parliament, with the result that her statement that she had purchased the article m Christchurch has been verified, and consequently she has been released. >As we ventdred to assume from the first a miscarriage of justice has taken place, and an innocent person has suffered.:: We repeat the sentence with which our first article Oh this subject concluded, , viz.-—'*. All things considered, the public may' congratulate themselves that our Resident Magistrates have- quite as much power vested m them as it is safe to, entrust them with." ' ;.T'.\.v "; : .;V ; !;y; : ,; :I
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 227, 28 August 1883, Page 2
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127MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 227, 28 August 1883, Page 2
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