LEGAL POINT ARGUED
■■(P.A.) DUNEDIN, September 2. An interesting point of law was argued before Mr. Justice Kennedy this morning when the Crown, appealed against the decision of a Magistrate in holding that it was necessary that indecent language used in a public place should be heard or overheard Iby a person or persons in that place before a conviction could be entered The appeal arose from a prosecution in which a man was convicted of using indecent language in a telephone box contrary to regulations under the Post and Telegraph Act. the charge of using indecent language in a public place being dismissed. His Honour reserved his decision.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1941, Page 10
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109LEGAL POINT ARGUED Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1941, Page 10
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