MAN ACQUITTED.
CHARGE OF RECEIVING NOTES. ( Per Press Association). PALMERSTON NORTH, May 9. Because the banknotes which figuied in the case were not proved to be the actual banknotes stolen, Thomas John Lucinsky, charged with receiving L24U knowing the same to have been dishonestly obtained, was acquitted. by the jury on Mr Justice Smith’s direction. . . . , His Honor said it was plain that certain notes had been stolen, rlie allegation being that accused received some of. those notes. It rvas necessaiy, however, to prove that accused ieceived the identical articles that were stolen. If a man stole a. double bedr stead and changed it at a dealer’s for two single beds and then gave one of them to another person, it seemed .plain that the receiver of that bedstead could not be charged. The same applied to banknotes. His Honor added that the position seemed to have been met in England by a, special act; but there was no similar provision in New Zealand. The Crown Prosecutor asked for leave to appeal, which was granted. If the appeal is upheld, accused can be re-tried.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 177, 10 May 1935, Page 5
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