SPEERS CASE
SENTENCE DEFERRED. POINT OF LAW REFERRED TO COURT OF APPEAL. (Ey Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Percy Reginald Speers, a draper, aged 42 years, who was found guilty yesterday of illegally using an instrument with intent to procure a miscarriage, appeared before Mr Justice Smith today for sentence. Counsel, however, asked for a point of law arising' from the judge’s direction to the jury to be reserved and his Honour decided that a case should be stated for opinion .of the Court of Appeal, which would sit again next month and deferred sentence until the judgment of that court. Prisoner was remanded till tomorrow, when it will be decided whether or not he will be released on bail.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1939, Page 8
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120SPEERS CASE Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1939, Page 8
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