CUSTODY OF A CHILD.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 13 July 1912, Page 5

CUSTODY OF A CHILD.

APPEAL COURT CASE

BY TELEGRAPH— PRKSS ASSOCIATION

AVELLINGTON, July 12 In the case Rex v. Mickleson, defendant had made an application to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus directed to his divorced wife with the object of detaining from her the custody and possession of their child Air Justice Edwards refused the application. On February 22 defendant, it is •illegea, unlawfully took away the child trom the Tlie question for the Court s Decision was whether the conviction at the June sittings in Auckland on the direction 0 f Mr*" Justice Sim was right in law. The Solictor-General appeared for the Crown and Mr Singer appeared for the Crown, and Mr T AY. Stringer K.C., for the prisoner. At the conclusion of Air Stringer's argument the Court intimated "that it did not wish to hear the Solicitor-Gen-eral on behalf of the Crown. Tlie Coin* unanimously decided that' the Judge's tim "XXX n' ffht hl Iaw ' and affirmed tne conviction.