COURT OF APPEAL
Boddie-Sievwright Case (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, March 13. The hearing of the case, Boddie v Sievwright, was resumed in the Court of Appeal this morning. Mr. H. F. O'Leary, for the respondent, submitted that. Boddie should not be allowed to bring before the Court evidence of events which had taken place since the Supreme Court trial. Ho contended that new evidence was only a veiled attack upon the truthfulness of respondent’s witnesses. After hearing Mr. C. H. Weston. K.C., counsel for tho appellant, in reply, tho Court expressed the unanimous opinion that new evidence should not be admitted. Mr. Weston then continued with tho main grounds of the appeal, the first of vdiich was that the trial judge had been in error when he had held that publication of two of the libels had not been proved. (See page 6 for earlier telegram).
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 77, 13 March 1934, Page 5
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