COURT OF APPEAL
CRIMINAL .OASES, [Pee United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 3. Judgment was delivered in the Court of Appeal in tho Crown case (reserved on Monday last) of Rex v. Elizabeth Russell, of Napier. The Court held that though it may have been tho intention of the prisoner to get rid of the custody of her child and not be called upon to pay the Hawke's Bay Charitable Aid Board, that does not in this case prove abandonment in the meaning of the Act. The Court ordered the conviction to bo quashed. ".n the. Crown case (reserved) of Rex v. Adams and Can-, in which tho jury brought in a verdict of "guilty, with no criminal intent, the act being committed while under tho influence of temporary insanity,*' the Conrt held that the moaning of . tho verdict was not free from doubt, and ordered a new trial at the next criminal sittings of the Supreme Court at Wellington.
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Evening Star, Issue 16079, 3 April 1916, Page 4
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159COURT OF APPEAL Evening Star, Issue 16079, 3 April 1916, Page 4
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