WELLINGTON SESSIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 7 November 1919, Page 5

WELLINGTON SESSIONS.

(BY T-LEGKAPH — i-Rh.SH ASSOCIATION.) \vj__L_i\U-iUa, Nov. 6. Ac the Supreme court __tncj_ Murphy, charged witn committing an indecent, lassauii^on a boy, was acquitted. ±iK.mas _ _rr_v, charged »virii committing bigamy, liavdng been married in iuignmd in iyj.4, ana in Wellington ifast year, v/as setenced to two years' Hard labor. At the request of prisoner's counsel, who raised a point as lo whether tiie Crown was bound to prove atfirmatively tiiat tho first wife was alive when the sceond marriage took place, Judge Chapman agreed to state the case for the Court of Appeal.