DEFENCE OF ACCUSED
Crown Counsel Asked For APPLICATION REFUSED Dominion Special Service. Palmerston North, May 3. An application for the Crown to supply him with counsel was made by Edward Mountford Tunneciiffe in the Supreme Court before -Mr. Justice Reed this morning. Ou t‘hc ground that accused had had counsel iu the Magistrate's Court tiie application was declined. In making the application. ’J’uuuecliffc said his counsel was indisposed. He had sent all his money to his counsel. and was now practically penniless. His Honour said the fact that accused had already bad counsel precluded the Crown from granting his application. The question of counsel was a quarrel between accused and his counsel. However, he would see that accused received fair play and did not suffer through the absence of his counsel.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 186, 4 May 1933, Page 11
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131DEFENCE OF ACCUSED Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 186, 4 May 1933, Page 11
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