AN UNUSUAL CASE.
LAW SHOULD BE AMENDED. (EY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ' AUCKLAND, Sept. 4. A young married man, whose name was ordered to be suppressed, was charged at the Police Court that he forged the name of the parent of a schoolboy to a note, causing the schoolmaster to act on it as genuine The schoolboy admitted that he asked the accused to sign his father’s name a note, explaining his'absence from school. Witness had played the truant tor two «days. Counsel urged that the case was too trivial to warrant being sent to the Supreme Court.
Mr. Poynton. S.M.', said that the law might be amended to give this power under proper safeguards, but at presit was beyond his powers to dismiss such a case, where there was no alternative summary charge that could be dealt with by the Magistrate. The accused pleaded not guilty, reserved his defence, and was committed tor trial at the Supreme Court.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 September 1924, Page 5
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158AN UNUSUAL CASE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 September 1924, Page 5
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