BIGAMY CHARGE FAILS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHUECH, This Day. At the Supreme Court, James Wiwi Norton, a quarter-easto Maori, was acquitted on a chargo of having committed bigamy, on the ground that there was no proof that ho knew his wife was living when he went through a form of marriage on the second occasion.
Mr. Justice Adams directed the jury to return a verdict of not guilty.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1929, Page 8
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