SUPREME COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 116, 14 May 1903, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

FES MESS ASSOCIATION, Na?ibk, May 13. At the Supreme Uourt to day, Uhas. Percy Ingram was founl "not guilty" on a charge cf wounding a horse, and ITbomisHaasea, a hof 17 years of I age, 11 cot guilty "on a charge of hoisestealiug. Henry S:auley was by direction of the Chief Justice found guilty on his o .vn aduiisiioa of iuc st un his adopted daughser at Hastings on 10 h April, 1902. As a result of the cffence the girl had a child ia J uuiuylast, No evidence was ciliai for the defenca, , counsel submitting that there was no case to go to the j try, on tho ground that thera couli ce no incest where 'there was no blooi relationship. Ho argued that a though the Ad opt'on of lofanti' Act ina-te au adopted caild iha same as the caitd of the adopting parents thare were two exceplions in ■which eu.h Was not the case. The jciitna of incest had bem unknown to New Zealaud law prior to 1900, 'and therefore when the luhn s idopjtion Act 1881 was pissed, such an 'off.nca could not hava bean con temj plated. He submitted on the author- ' i y of the King v. Mionia that tha j crime of incest rested w hol.'y oa the question of y. His Hocor s»id the point raisjd was certainly j worth considering, but be was co; prap re 1 to dismiss the case and would | reserve it for the Court of Appeal,