SUPREME COURT
■ CONVICI'ION TJPHELD. 'His Honour Mr. Justice 'Edwards yesterday .delivered judgment upon the appeal of Jean M'AVhirter,'.'formerly. a barmaid employee] at tl)e Grand Hotel, against* her'conviction t'pr a breach qf the anti-shouting regulations. The conviction was recorded in the Magistrate's Court by Mr. 5... ■E. M'Carthy, S.M» and the grounds o'f •the appeal from it were that, the conviction'was contrary to - natural jusWee, that jt was bad in lfiw and invalid for uncertainty, a-nq 1 that it did pot cpiir fqrm to the information-or to the evi- "■' '.. ■ ■'■•"• ;••-;■■;• ■•; His Honour, after reviewing the arguments of Mr.' M. Myers (for thp appellant) and Mr. P. S. K. (for the Crown), held that the conviction was in order, and that the motion to quash it must he dismissed. Mr. Macasscy did not press for costs.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 75, 21 December 1917, Page 7
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