DECLARED INNOCENT
AFTER PLEADING GUILTY. (Per Press Association.) NEW PLYAIOUTH, This Day. To be adjudged innocent of any offence after he had pleaded guilty was the position in which a defendant to a charge laid under the Land Act, 1924, has been placed as a result of a reserved judgment delivered by Air W . H. Woodward. S.AI. ft was alleged against Ernest John Press, of Onkura, that he had subdivided a leasehold property of which lie was the proprietor without approval of the- plans hv the Minister of Lands. Airs I. Al. Alills, owner of the property, was charged with assisting in the commission of the offence. The magistrate held that Press, not being the owner of the land, was not responsible for the .submission of the plan to the Alinister, and there being no offence, Airs Alills could not have assisted 1 him in committing it. The entering, of judgment was delayed to give Press an opportunity io withdraw his pica.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 299, 1 October 1935, Page 3
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