HABEAS CORPUS ACT.
AN APPEAL DISMISSED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Feb. 18. Judgment was delivered to-day by Sir Worley Edwards on an application under the Habeas Corpus Act for discharge frpm custody of Hope Whitfield Home. Home was born in New Zealand in 181)7 and went m America m October, 1917, intending to remain permanently. He was drawn in the ballot in December, 1017. He returned in May, 1018, under a passport authorising him to stay six months, His appeal against being cailed up on the ground that he was not a Uritish subject was dismissed in August. Home made a declaration of alienage in November, 1018. He was arrested and sentenced by court-martial to two years' imprisonment for refusal to obey a lawful command and is now in custody in Paharoa Gaol. Until making the declaration of alienage Home was a person of dual nationality. His Honor held that when a man became a soldier under the Military Service Act he could not divest himself of the liability by a voluntary or formal act or declaration of alienage. The summons was therefore dismissed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1919, Page 2
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184HABEAS CORPUS ACT. Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1919, Page 2
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