APPEAL AGAINST A CONVICTION.
TIIK SLATTERY CASE. ARGUMENT IN TJIU FULL COURT. LIUIKSS ASSOCIATION'^ SYDNEY. 39th May. If oaring ha* commenced l»y the Full Court of 'the appeal on hoh.ili of T. M. Slattrry, formerly a member of 1 hoLegislative (Vimeil, who was winenm! on the 3rd April to three and a halt years' imprisonment nil h <li!irg<" of a-p-preprinting a l«rgt> sum of money belonging to .Mrs. bcanlon, a lcgatoo in the Tyson esl.ite. The grounds of tho appeal aro th.it Slattcry was not -,\ Ini'jc of Mrs. .Sr.mlon'a money, for tho larceny of which hn was sentenced, but only banker, and that previous civil pmrcdinfja wero provcntfJ by i-riininal procoedmg* being Liken on the vuno facts. Air. Jiick Want argued that the money Avaa a debt from Slattvry to Mrs. So'anlon, and there would bo no hreeny of debt; tint what ho paid into his overdraft account booamo tho bank's money, and what he dr.nv was not t ho equivalent in Mr.->. Scanlon'g money, but a loan by tho bank.
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Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 5
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APPEAL AGAINST A CONVICTION.
Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 20 May 1905, Page 5
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