COURT OF APPEAL.
: The Court of Appeal sat at half-past three-, and considered the case . REGINA V. HALL.
: This was a criminal case reserved by his Honor Mr. Justice Gillies from the Auckland division of the Supreme Court for the opinion of the Court of Appeal. Mr. Alhm appeared for the| Crown, , ; His Honor the Chief Justice thought that the second indictment being in the' alternative was bad. .
His Honor Mr. Justice Johnston expressed his dissent from the views of the Chief justice; i Their Honors Mr. Justice Williams agreed with Mr. Justice Johnston. - ■ ! The conviction was affirmed. ■=. ;. •,■
’ REGINA V JI’SHANE. This was a ■ criminal case reserved from Invercargill by his Honor Mr. Justice Williams..
! His Honor the Chief Justice thought that the prisoner, had acted on . her husband’s coer-
cion. ' ' s ;‘: ,■ ■ .-p ', ■ His' Honor Mr. Justice Johnston thought that the finding of the jury was inconsistent. .Their Honors Mr. Justice Gillies and Mr. Justice Williams concurred-' 1 - The conviction was quashed. WEBB V. THE NATIONAL BANK.
In reply to the Court, Mr. Stewart said that an agreement had been come to between the appellant and respondents as to the form of entering the judgment of the Court on the record, and as to the appeal to the Privy Council.
IIABBISOS (EXOK.. ETC.,) V. EEID (SOL.-GE.N’L, „ .. .AND OTHERS. . ... ■ •_ >»-• Mr. Hart, who. appeared for the plaintiff, submitted that a suggestion should be entered on . the record that , the, present Education .Board .was not the Board which was in existence at the time the suit was. commenced. This arose under the abolition legislation of last,session, and it was very .necessary before the plaintiff paid over the money that the matter should be put right on the record. Mr. Brandon jntimated. that, he had ■ authority to, represent the present Board. ' Mr. Hart said that he would then move that the Education Board for the district of Wellington be substituted as defendants in lieu of the Education Board for the province of Wei-, lington, which had ceased to exist./■ ■ Mr. Brandon said that he consented to the course proposed, and then read the minutes of decree, which he- hod prepared, and had been agreed to hy .the other , counsel in, the case. • • ■ '■ •• 1 ■ ' '•' . i
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4898, 2 December 1876, Page 2
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370COURT OF APPEAL. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4898, 2 December 1876, Page 2
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