Foolish Prosecution,
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dunedin, last night. In Banco, the police apppealed against the decision of Mr Graham, acquitting Wm. Hammond Corcll, who had been charged in the Court bolow with a breach of the Offensive Publications Act. The ground of the appeal was that the Magistrate had no need to decide whether the publication in question was offensive, Section 5 of the Act giving the Legislature the definition. Mr Chapman, for the respondent, contended that the work was purely a medical work, and that if the polico were right it would be an offence for one medical man to show it to another medical man. The Judge decided that the Legislature were aiming, not at books of the class referred to, but at advertisements and matter of that character, and dismissed the appeal.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 262, 14 November 1901, Page 2
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