APPEAL COURT.
VERDICT SET ASIDE. Per Frees Association. WELLINGTON, April 30. The appeal Court has given its decision in the case of Rex v. Blazina. At the trial Air Justice Herdman held against the contention that there was no offence as there had been no attempt on the part of the accused to extort anything for herself. The Court held (hat the term “gain anything” from any person means “gain anything for the offender himself,” but “extort anything” is different in meaning. A person may bo guilty under section 269, although his only interest was to extort something for another without gain for himself. In this case all that the accused demanded was that a tea-set should be returned to the Alangawai Hall committee, the donor of the, prize. Such a demand did not come within the section and was not in the nature of blackmail. There was no evidence on which a jury, if the question had been left to it, would have been justified in finding an intent to extort anything from Nitz. The verdict therefore ought to be set aside and the accused discharged.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 1 May 1925, Page 7
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187APPEAL COURT. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 1 May 1925, Page 7
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