APPEAL COURT.
Per Press Association. Wellington, July 15. The Court of Appeal was engaged today with Rex v. Peddle, who was tried nt Napier for assaulting the Sheriff. At the close of the evidence for the Crown, Mr Haume, K.C., counsel for tlie prisoner, contended that prisoner must be acquitted on the grounds—(l) that there was no proof that the condition as to the payment of the purchase money had heen fulfilled, and therefore the writ of possession was bad; '(2) there was no proof that Mr Cuttcn was a sheriff at the time of the assault; (3) that there was no evidence of identification of the land, therefore Cuttcn was a trespasser, aml (he assault was .justifiable. Prisoner had been convicted by a jury, and .rud.M Cooper reserved for the opinion of the Court of Appeal the question .whether lie was rightly convicted. Mr Banme, K.C., and Mr Levi., appeared for the prisoner, and Mr Myers for the Crown. Mr Baume stated the facts as nfliove. His address had not con--1 eluded when the Court adjourned until 10.30 to-morrow,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 July 1907, Page 2
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180APPEAL COURT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 16 July 1907, Page 2
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