RIGHT TO RESIST ARREST: RULING BY MAGISTRATE
(Rec. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 13. The Oxford Magistrate’s bench upheld defence counsel’s submission that a person wrongfully or illegally arrested had the right to resist arrest and fight for freedom. The police charged an undergraduate with attempting to steal a globe indicating a pedestrian crossing and with assaulting two police officers. The undergraduate said he had been celebrating and climbed the indicator standard to demonstrate his sobriety.' If he wanted to steel the globe, he need not have climbed the standard, because he was 6ft 3ins tall and could have reached the screws from the ground. Counsel submitted that a person could only be arrested on suspicion of a felony, not a misdemeanour. Police witnesses said the undergraduate kicked a constable and bit a sergeant.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1947, Page 5
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