A KNOTTY POINT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3525, 12 July 1920, Page 7

A KNOTTY POINT.

i Can n 1112111 be convicted of tres- . passing‘ on his own f:11‘n1 in searcli of lg‘ill}l.€—-~~‘v\‘llL‘ll the lzlndowner has by agroeinent preserved the sliooting ‘ rights? The question was deibatc-d in :1 |l{ipg’s Bench Divisional Court before ' tlle__Lorcl. Chief Justice and 111- Justices 'A;vol'y and Roche. Mr Thomas Wurrlle. of Weston Hall Fziyin, j\'\’eston, near St{lf.f<)rd, appealed from aiconviction by the inagistrates ‘at tl’lo_binst2lnCe of :1 gaunekeeper emplo_ve<l by the Earl of Sln'ewsbln'y. Shooting at a rook, Mi‘ Wiirdle shot. :1 cock pliezisant, dllll he was finell 40/ amlh costs. The Lord Chief .]‘lls'ficeE How a man who is stzinrling on his own fzmn can be said to be tl'espassin9; is rliflicnlt to nmlerstaml. The Court allowed‘ the appeal, with costs, and ordered that the conviction should be quasliech ! The Lord Chief Justice said it was quite plain that Ml‘ \V‘£i.l'(lle had been i fined for an offence he could not pos- ; Sihly have eonnnilteil. . .-*-':- .21