A DeliGate Legal Point

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 82, 4 January 1890, Page 3

A Deli Gate Legal Point

The Coiirt for the Consideration of Crown Cases Reserved, presided over by the Lord Chief Justice and six other judges, gave an importaut deci"ijj_tn recently. A youth named Brown nad beeu convicted of an attempt to steal, and sentenced to imprisonment with hard labor, but a case was stated which raised the question whether the conviction ought not to be quashed on the ground that it was impossible to commit the offence. It appears that io the case of the Queen v. Collins the 'Court of Criminal Appeal decided that a man could not be convicted of an attempt to steal when his band was found in empty pockets, from which jt was .impossible to steal. Their lordships now unanimously decided that the decision in the Queeu v, Collins was a mistaken view of the law, aud affirmed the conviction of Brown. We have triple "attractions to induce lar"-e. hmg aud repeated visits to onr warehouse durms. the pr.-twut month. 1 st. We have the largest and best selected stock in the city. 2nd. The quality of our goods is Al and tbe prices the lowest possibl . -ird Every purchaser from 10d and up tards gets in addition, a very usefu •nleasin". and attractive present, at ie Aro House, Wellington. > We allude to the free distribution of Christmas presents &<-, These consist SnSS very useful attractive, and Jw-S' Japanese, Chinese, and oboer SSblef^cy.articlAs, newly imparted.