A PECULIAR TEST CASE
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, January 27. At the Police Court Mr. Frazer, S.M., gavo reserved judgment in a test caso regarding the liability of a man who yields to solicitation on tho street bv a woman of ill-famo. The action was taken under Section _53 of the Justice of the Peace Act. which makes any person who counsels, aids, abets, or procures tho commission of an offence punishable summarily equally liable with the chief offender. Mr. Frazer said the English cases quoted by the police showed tho section to bo extraordinarily wide, but also sliowed that the section was of modern application. The offence was completed immediately the woman spoke, and before the man could reply, either favourably or otherwise; consequently the ofl'ence was completed before the man came into it. and the man emild not bo convicted as an accessory. The charge was dismissed.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2680, 28 January 1916, Page 7
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149A PECULIAR TEST CASE Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2680, 28 January 1916, Page 7
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