J.P. CHARGED WITH PERJURY.
Napier, April 10. In a case iu which a Justica of the Peace was charged at the Magistrate’s Court to-day with perjury, the accused made the somewhat unusual defence that the evidence which formed the subject of the charge referred to a time when he was intoxicated, and that his evidence had not been knowingly false. . . .
The Magistrate, in dismissing the case said bethought, however, that it was a very extraordinary thing that a person who had to get out of a serious offence like this by the defence that he was drunk and did not know what he was doing should not hold a commission of the peace, and he would have to consider seriously whether to make representations to the Department of Justice about the matter.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 11 April 1907, Page 3
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132J.P. CHARGED WITH PERJURY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3762, 11 April 1907, Page 3
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