EVIDENCE OF POLICE WITNESSES.
AN APPEAL DISMISSED. fur "telegraph — itiess association.] AUCKLAND, This Day. In dismissing an appeal from the decision of Mr. Cutten, Stipendiary Magistrate, in the case against Madame Wise, on a charge of fortune- telling — a case which was dismissed on tho ground that the police who induced the defendant to tell fortunes were accomplices — Mr. Justice Edwards said the appeal should not have been brought. As long ago as 1848 it was laid down that when the accomplice was a spy in the interests of justice corroboration was not required. He held that the magistrate knew this, and that if he did not believe the police constables his Honour could not compel him to, and there the matter ended. Tiie taking of money was not an ingredient in the crime.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 144, 15 December 1909, Page 8
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134EVIDENCE OF POLICE WITNESSES. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 144, 15 December 1909, Page 8
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