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MEANING OF A WORD

CHARGE OF OBSCENE LANG (JACK jiy Telegraph—Press Association, Chrisichurch, January 9. At the JlagislMtefa Court this morning, before jlr. Day, S.M., a young man named Albert Thomas Dalley was dnir;*od with using obscene laiifrimge and disturbing: -Mr. meeting. He pleadC(i not guilty. The otace/ie hiiigunge charge rostra principally on the accused having .-said to a constable: "I well know who, you are; you're a plaiu-clotlies 'John'." Coiuyel for the nccused said that the word alleged to have been used was not obscene. "No," agreed the Magistrate, "but it I has been held by one Judge to be indecent. lint, I don't know thnt I am bound by thnt, since it did not go beyond Ihe one Judge, and that Judge evi- < ilently based his decision upon the- dieI tionaiy meaning of the word 'indecent' ' ! as something wliicli gives offence. Many ' words could be hold to give oflx.ico, although they are not indecent." The | Magistrate added that he could not see j his v/av to ounvict on either charge. In regard to the language, it was only one man's cvidonco against another's, and ] as for the disturbance Dalle.y was merely one of the crowd. lioth informations wero dismissed.

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 90, 10 January 1920, Page 8

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MEANING OF A WORD Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 90, 10 January 1920, Page 8

MEANING OF A WORD Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 90, 10 January 1920, Page 8

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