ODLIN CASE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 92, 15 October 1926, Page 8

ODLIN CASE

REMAINING CHARGES WITHDRAWN

"ENDS OF JUSTICE HAVE BEEN MET."

The remaining charges against Charles Camperdown Odlin of making false income tax returns and aiding and abetting the C. and A. Odlin Timber and Hardware Company in making false income tax returns were withdrawn by the Crown in the Magistrate's Court to-day. The application was made before Mr. E. Page, S.M. Mr. J. M. Tudhope, of the Crown Law Office, appeared for the Land and Income Tax Department, and the defendant was represented by Mr. H. F. O'Leary and Mr. R. Kennedy. Mr. Tudhope said that there were eight informations against Mr. Odlin— four of making false returns in respect of the income of the company and four charges of aiding and abetting the company. They were two sets of alternative informations. Mr. Odlin had already been fined £400 on charges of making false returns, and the company had also been fined a similar amount. Against these convictions the company appealed to the Supremo Court, but the appeal was absolutely and unconditionally abandoned. Mr. Tudhope said that he wanted to emphasise the fact that the appeals had been unconditionally abandoned. There had been no settlement and no concession had been made by the Commissioner of Taxes. As the company and Mr. Odlin had been convicted, it was considered that the ends of justice would be met if the eight informations against Mr. Odlin, in respect of the same set of acts and transactions, were withdrawn. Permission to withdraw the charges was granted by tho Magistrate.