QUESTION OF COMMITTAL.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 235, 27 June 1908, Page 6

QUESTION OF COMMITTAL.

TRIVIAL CASES. (BY TELEGRAPH.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, June 26. In the course of a case at the Police Court, Mr. Napier, one of tho defending counsel, urged tho triviality of the theft in question as a reason why the case should not be sent to tho Supremo Court, and putting the country to a heavy expenso, when justioo, he argued, could bo equally well applied under the circumstances at tho hands of tho Justices., Sub-Inspector Gordon contended, however, that tho public security demanded that an oircnco should be dealt with, not according to the value of damage dono or goods stolen, but with regard to tho circumstances con-' periling it-. When a servant violated a position of triist, ho merited a heavy penalty, irrespective of what amount' was involved. ' Tho presiding Justice, while agreeing with Mr. Napier that what appeared to bo trivial cases were frequently and, in his opinion unnecessarily taken to tho higher court, said that in tho case in question tho Bench had no option but to commit.

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