NOT PROVEN
RECEIVING CHARGE
BANK-NOTES CASE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON NORTH, May 9. Because bank-notes that flgure(* in a case were not proved to be the actual bank-notes stolen, Thomas John Lucinsky, charged with receiving , £240 knowing the money to have been dishonestly obtained, was acquitted by a jury on Mr. Justice Smith's direction in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North today. His Honour said it was plain that certain notes had been stblen, the allegation being that the accused received some of those notes. It was necessary, however, to prove that the accused received the identical articles that were stolen. If a man stole a bedstead, changed it at a dealer's for two single beds, and then gave one of them to another person, it seei.ied plain that the receiving of :that bodstead could not be charged. The same applied to the bank-notes. ; His Honour added that th^ position seemed to have been met in England by a special Act, but there ; was no similar provision in New Zealand. Mr. H. R. Cooper, for the Crown, asked that questions should be reserved for the Court of Appeal, and his Honour granted the request.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1935, Page 11
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194NOT PROVEN Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1935, Page 11
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