APPEAL TO ANNUL PLEA OF GUILTY
(P.A.) WELLINGTON. June 3. An application for the quashing or setting aside of a plea of guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to a charge of rape was heard before the Full Court in the Supreme Court today on beh'alf of Desmond Walsh, aged 19, cook, from H.M.N.Z.S. Bellona. f The application was first made on May 11 when Walsh appeared before Mr. Justice Fair for sentence. He was then remanded to appear before the Full Court. Today the case is being heard before the Chief Justice, Sir Humphrey O’Leary, and Justices Fair and Gresson. counsel for Walsh. Mr. W. V. Gazley, said that as far as the presiding justices in the Lower Court were concerned he would not say that they had done anything wilfully or perversely wrong, but he would say that they failed to do certain things because of ignorance. The court staff was completely blameless as far as the formal taking of depositions was concerned. As far as the police were concerned counsel said he would contend that there was impropriety on the part of one police officer, not wilfully or perversely, but through ignorance and the desire to do the best he could on behalf of the accused. (Proceeding.)
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 6
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