Case Against Mr Scott Dismissed.
I Per Press Association. I Wellington, This Day. In the Supreme Court this morning in the case against Mr G. J Scott of giving and W. Cootnbes accepting a bribe. After the Crown prosecutor bad given his opening address the Cbief Justice ruled there was no case to go to the jury and the accused was accordingly discharged without evidence being taken. Later. In the bribery case the Cbief Justice pointed out there appeared in the evidence nothing whatever to compromise Mr Scott- It was quite possible for a man to make amends for a wrong with* out any corrupt intention, and His Honor read an American case in which the friends of tbo accused repaid money that had been stolen and as there was no evidence of auy corrupt bargain it was held not to be compounding a felony. It was true Mr Coombes' conduct be* fore and, after the payment may have given grounds for some suspicion against him, but Mr Scott was sot responsible for that, and mere suspicion was, uot enough to couYMit.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 126, 26 November 1896, Page 2
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