Wellington Supreme Court

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 80, 10 January 1889, Page 3

Wellington Supreme Court

AOaUTTTAL OF CHAB- HENRY. THE OTEEtf V. OHABLES HENBY. Mr Jellicoe, on behalf of the prisoner, Applied to the Chief Justice to plead generally to the indictment •charging the prisoner with misdemeanors under the Bankruptcy Act, in addition to a special plea of autrefois convict. He contended that the prisoner was being tried for certain ; .acts for which he had been punished by the District Court at Palmerston, mnder the summary jurisdiction clauses ; ■of the Bankruptcy Act His Honor granted the requisite leave, and Mr Jellieoe undertook to furnish the proa•euution with the copies of the ep&eial {pleas. Mr Gully, having read the draft of the pleas, 4aid he was obliged to admit the allegations, although he ; •disputed that the offence was the! «ame. His Honor said, in his view \ 4he man oagiht aot to be put in peril { iwioe for the same act, aud that, if aieeessary, he should for th-e present -deuide. -against the plea of auinefoie •contact, so that the -case might go to & jury, «ad reeeecve the <ea«e for tike ! •opiates of -the Appeal Court; but, he ! ihuttgbi;^ on the whole, -the prosecution \ tougktto be .abandoned if Mr Jellieoe's, «co&.teat&oii was ' correct. Mr Gully ; itheaaupon leoasented to enter a nolle! iprose^vi, And the prisoner was brought : sip and •discharged. ;