RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT.
This Day. (Before A. 0. Strode, Esq., R.M.) CHAEGE OF USING ABUSIVE LANGUAGE. Beadle v. Buckley,—The defendant was charged on the information of the prosecutor with being suspected of using insulting and abusive language on the 9th September calculated to provoke a breach of the peace. Mr Harris, for the defendant, objected to the wording of the information, which charged nothing positive against the defendant, but merely that be was suspected of using abusive words. His Worship said the form was prescribed by the Act. The words complained of were that the prosecutor was a madman and an abortion. A witness was called, who remembered nothing of the day on which the alleged offence was committed. The words were deniedand the case was dismissed.
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2730, 16 November 1871, Page 2
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127RESIDENT MAGISTRATE’S COURT. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2730, 16 November 1871, Page 2
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