CONCERNING BIGAMY
LEGAL POINT DECIDED. Picserved decision was given in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday by Mr. E. Page. S.M., on the legal point raised by counsel Ihe previous day in connection witli the charge of bigamy preferred against ii young man. Accused was charged with having gone through a form of marriage at All Saints' Church, Kilbirnie, in December last, when his first wife was alive in England. Defendine counsel (Mr. PJAV. Jackson) submitted that outside of the accused's own statement there was nothing to show that ut the time of the alleged bigamous marriage his first wife was alive. In delivering his uecihion, the Magistrate said that the admissions made by the accused were in his opinion sufficient to justify the accused being put on his trial. Accused was accordingly committed for trial at the next sessions of tho Supreme Court, at Wellington. Bail was allowed in the sum of .£SO and two sureties of a like, amount.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 25, 24 October 1919, Page 5
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159CONCERNING BIGAMY Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 25, 24 October 1919, Page 5
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