Appeal Court.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 74, 31 March 1904, Page 3

Appeal Court.

(I'er Pr«js Association). UIU,LI\t; ro.N, .\ ov . 00. The Appeal Court dealt with a Wanganui case. Kviiben ilassall bookmaker, who at the Supreme Court session# theie was indicted on /our counts for forging telegrams, for uttering the same, for wrongfully signing a telegram without the authority of u.e person t-y whom it purported to have been issued, and for wilfully d<livering it without the authority of the person by wh .. . ...rted to be signed. The jury convicted on the third and loiirlh counts and acquitted on the tirsi and second, and Judge Cooper reserved for the Court of Appeal Hie question whether telegrams procured from a tebgraohic oificc hy a det.:;li\e utMissahle as evidence of comparing accused's handwriting with that in the wire Which foiiiwd tl.e subject of the charge. The Court of Appeal held that a detective was not a person prohibited from procuring a tole- \ gram under section S.'i of the Elr ectric lines Act and confirmed the conviction that accused should bo required to Lome up for sentence. * Later. The Court of Appeal has adjourned until Alonday. April 11th, when a nuinl»:r 01 judgments w-iil be delivered. There are also fivo cases fltill remaining to f>e argued when the Court resumes.