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DISCRETION NEEDED

POLICE AND BIGAMY CHARGES LONDON, November 17. Mr Justice _ Mackinnon, at the Glamorgan Assizes, suggested that the police should xise greater discretion in bringing bigamy cases to the court. “ The offence of bigamy,” he said. “ varies with its seriousness.” He said it was once regarded as an ecclesiastical matter, and the authorities did not want any offence against the church. But to-day many ceremonies are performed outside a church, and although morally wrong there are certain cases in which, apart from the moral standpoint, no real harm has been done to the first or the second woman. The case concerned an Ulster man who contracted a form of marriage at Belfast shortly before leaving for Franco to serve in the war. The woman he “ married ” has since been prosecuted for bigamy and discharged.

Mr Justice Mackinnon said that no jury would think of convicting the man, who was discharged. His real wife admitted that she boro him no grudge, and that he had treated her kindly.

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Evening Star, Issue 21581, 29 November 1933, Page 5

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DISCRETION NEEDED Evening Star, Issue 21581, 29 November 1933, Page 5

DISCRETION NEEDED Evening Star, Issue 21581, 29 November 1933, Page 5