SERIOUS CHARGE
A POINT IN DOUll'i.
BY Telegraph.—Press association Palmerston North, May 8.
In the Supremo Court to«day, Will lain ’Alfred Te Mokina Walden, married, aged 25 years, was found guilty of carnal knowledge of a girl under sixteen. Counsel for the defence asked permission to raise before the Court of Appeal a legal point which may, however, result in ae* cused’s acquittal. The fatiier of the girl produced a certificate of age, made out in 1925, wheh the girl was 13 years old, explaining that she was his adopted daughter, having conic upder his care when five years of age. Counsel for the defence submitted that something more definite was needed to show that tho girl in tho case was the same girl mentioned in the certificate, and asked leave to take the point before tho Court of Appeal. His Honour promised to consider the matter and give his decision to-morrow.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 186, 9 May 1928, Page 15
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