COURT OF APPEAL.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 134, 13 July 1914, Page 10

COURT OF APPEAL.

THE CASE OF W. T. YOUNG. Press Association. WELLINGTON, July 13. The Appeal Court is engaged this morning in hearing argument on certain law points which were reserved at the trial, in May last, of William Thomas Young, on a charge of sedition, 'and with reference to a . speech made on October 26, 1913, at the Basin Beserve, Wellington, during the recent waterside workers strike. The main question is whether the conviction and punishment of Young for inciting *people to resist the police, which, was founded upon certain words in the same speech, the whole of which was looked at by the Magistrate, are an answer to the present proceedings. Mr Justice Hosking, at the trial, overruled this objection, relying on Holland *s case, and reserved the* question for the consideration of the Appeal Court. Young was convicted of sedition, but sentence was postponed pending the decision of the Appeal Court on this question, and certain minor questions as to the admissibility of certain evidence Mr T. M. Wilford and Mr P. J. O'Began appeared for the accused, and the Solicitor-General for the Crown, argument is proceeding.