MENTAL HOSPITAL CASE.
. .JUDGE TAKES REASONABLE. . . VIEW. CHRISTCHURCH, June 17. i At the Christchurch Supreme Court sentence was passed this morning by. Air Justice Adams on John Leonard, convicted of intercourse with his wife while the latter was a patient at Sunnyside Mental Asylum. Leonard was convicted ou November 16, when the jury made a strong recommendation to mercy as they believed the act was committed through ignorance of the law. During the hearing, a question was raised as to wheth•er a husband is liable in such an instance, and a case was stated for the opinion of the Appeal Court which in I May affirmed the conviction. His Honour to-day said that the case was very unusual, even the Appeal Court was not entirely in agre-ement. In view’ of all the circumstances, he ordered Leonard to be detained in custody till the rising of the Court.
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Grey River Argus, 18 July 1922, Page 2
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