AN EXTRADITION CASE.
WHEN JUDGES DIFFER
[By Telegraph—Press Association.] Wanganui, last night,
In the Supremo Court this afternoon Mr S. T. Fitzherbert mentioned that he had received a telegram from Mr Bell, Crown Prosecutor of Wellington, and another from Mr Skerratt, askiug him to request Mr Justice Edwards to deliver judgment in the Supremo Court in tho Lillywhitc-Blatch extradition case. The Court was moved for a motion for a - writ of Habeas Corpus with a view of discharging tho prisoner Lilly white from custody, he having been committed by the Magistrate at Wellington under the provisions of the Fugitive Offenders’ Act 1881.
Justice” Edwards first delivered the judgment of Chief Justice, with which he dissented, and then read his own judgment, which was contrary to that of .the Chief Justice.
The opinion of the Court being divided, the result presumably will be that an order or motion or rule absolute will hot be made, and the prisoner will be extradited in accordance with the decision of the Magistrate.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 49, 27 February 1901, Page 2
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168AN EXTRADITION CASE. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 49, 27 February 1901, Page 2
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