WOMAN WARNED BY MAGISTRATE
INFORMATION GIVEN TO WITNESSES. Bt Telegraph.—Press association. Gisborne, February 22. An unusual interruption occurred in the hearing of an information for assault in the Magistrate’s Court to-day, when counsel for defendant disclosed that information wag being carried out of Court to witnesses ordered out of bearing. A woman in the ease was brought before the Magistrate and ordered to remain at hand, but while waiting to bo dealt with she explained to a policeman that she had given information as alleged. The Magistrate immediately adjourned the hearing to allow plaintiff’s counsel to consider the question of withdrawing the information, as his witnesses had received advice on a crucial point of cross-examination. After a short adjournment counsel said that his client had agreed that it would bo unfair to proceed owing to defendant’s counsel bping prejudiced in bis right of •cross-examination through the interference of the woman. The Magistrate, Mr. E. C. Levvey. issued a stern warning to the woman, and advised her to keep away from the Court.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 124, 23 February 1928, Page 8
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172WOMAN WARNED BY MAGISTRATE Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 124, 23 February 1928, Page 8
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