“NOT VERY SERIOUS”
YOUTH’S OFFENCE PRISONER DISCHARGED “It is probable that both were equally to blame,” said Mr. Justice Stringer yesterday afternoon, in dealing with a youtn of 17, who appeared to answer several charges against a girl aged 14 years. Giving evidence the principal witness said she had constantly kept company with the accused during and since their schooldays. After hearing her evidence, counsel retired with His Honour. When the Court resumed, Mr. Hall Skelton, who appeared for accused, said he would agree to a plea of guilty to the one charge admitted by accused in his statement to the police. He understood the Crown would abandon the other counts. In discharging prisoner, His Honour said the case presented no very serious features, and was probably one of mutual consent. “It is a case affecting merely the two people concerned, and it would not harm the ends of justice if I forbade, as I do, the publication of the name of either party,” said His Honour.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 108, 28 July 1927, Page 18
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167“NOT VERY SERIOUS” Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 108, 28 July 1927, Page 18
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