A Nice Husband.
A somewhat remarkable utterance of Mr Justice Day is reported in the Yorkshire papers in reference to ; a case of assault on a wife sent by the Rotheram Magistrates for trial at the Yorkshire Assizes, John Thomas Heffernon was charged with wounding his with intent to do her grierns bodily harm at Rotheram on December 21th last. Mr Law, who prosecuted, said that the prisoner was angry with his wite for going to a place that he disapproved of, and he knocked her down with his fist, and struck her a couple of blows with the poker, In the witness box, the prosecutrix gave her evidence reluctantly, and said she did not wish to press the case, His Lordship, in addressing the jury, commented very unfavorably on the conduct of the magistrates in sending the case to the Assizes, He said as the affair was merely a personal squabble, and that 110 substantial injury had been done, it was a question for the jury to decide whether the prisoner had been Riiilty of a felonious assault, or whether was merely exercising that control over his wife, which was still sanctioned by the law of England, The jury returned a verdict of notguilty, and the prisoner was discharged,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2893, 8 May 1888, Page 3
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210A Nice Husband. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2893, 8 May 1888, Page 3
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