NATURAL LAW
RESORT TO BLOWS
CONTEMPTUOUS PENALTY
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NELSON, 19th December. In giving decision in a case in which James Gribben was charged with assaulting Arthur Ernest Alfred Wiffen, inflicting facial injuries" necessitating four days in hospital, Mr. T. E. Maunsell, S.M., Baid that assault had not been denied, but the defence was one of extreme provocation. He could not believe that the meeting between Wiffen ana the defendant's wife in Wellington was a chance meeting. He was also satisfied that Wiffen had broken up the defendant's home. It was not legal for Gribben to make the assault, but as long as human nature was what it was, that would be the natural result, and no law could stop The Magistrate said he would inflict a contemptuous penalty, so far as Wiffen was concerned. Ho imposed a fine of one shilling, without costs.
Plymouth lifeboat returned early one morning recently with the crew of three of the ketch Millom Castle, which was abandoned waterlogged during a gale in the Cnannel.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 149, 21 December 1932, Page 11
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172NATURAL LAW Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 149, 21 December 1932, Page 11
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