APPEAL COURT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4730, 26 May 1894, Page 2

APPEAL COURT.

A Solicitor Stiucli off the Ms. By Telegraph.—Press Association) Wellington, Saturday, h tlio Appeal Court to-day Miisher appeared to support a motion i make absolute a decree nisi skit ' lg Alfred John Burgess, solicitor, liristclmwh, off the rolls. Counsel [plained that Burgess was charged ith conspiracy by threatening to ;cuse a certain person of having immitted an .abominable offence, he case was tried at the last sitting ; t-liß Supremo Court, at Christ- * mrch, when tho accused was con- ( cted and awardod a term of im« ' isonment. • * The Chief Justice said there was ) reason to supposethattho vortlict the jury was not justified by the 'ldence, and he was satisfied that urgess should be struck off the lis. Judges Conolly and, Kiohmond nourred, Judge Denniston, before whom e oase was tried, said there was not o slightest doubt at any stage of o proceedings of the guiit of Burss. Although he was only arged with misdemeanour, practilly. the offence of which he was avicted was a serious felony of iking a throat to obtain money by urging a person with a crime. The le was accordingly made absolute.