PROSECUTOR PLEADS FOR ACCUSED
SYDNEY. "It is a horrible system of justice which allows a man to be kept in gaol for four months awaiting trial because he cannot get bail," said Mr. W. P. Walters, a solicitor, in the Lismore Court of Petty Sessions.Mr. Walters was 'appearing for a company which launched the action agvainst the man for whom he made an appeal. The man charged was Neil Arthur Pyne, 34, gardener, of Springwood, Blue Mountains,( who "was committed for trial at the Lismore Quarter Sessioijs on May 5 on a charge of having • fraudulently omitted to aceount for v£7 16s 5d to Vernon C'ardew. Wilson, trading as the Farmers' iSupply Co. Pyne had appealed to be released on his own recognisance when Mr. Walters, stating that his company was not vindictive, appealed for Pyne. Mr. Walters said one reason why Pyne would be kept in gaol for four months if bail were not available was the distance of this circuit from Sydney. If the law had to have surety, it could be made at a nominal amount, say, one shilling. "It is quite prrepaeshootfipnhslhffi'ffi "It is quite probable the prosecution would go surety for one shilling," he added. . Bail of £25 was allowed.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5320, 5 February 1947, Page 2
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205PROSECUTOR PLEADS FOR ACCUSED Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5320, 5 February 1947, Page 2
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