A CROWN CASE.
(.UNITED PMSS ASSOCIATION.] Wklmnoton. Oatober 25. The oase of Begin* v Howard, a Crown oase reserved, was argued m the Court of Appeal this afternoon. The defendant, Emma Howard, was indicted before tha District Court at Hawera for the offence of keeping a oomtnon towdy house. Acoused is a married woman, and u;ed for the purpose m question a room m an outhouse at the rear of (he dwelling occupied by herself and her husband and children. There was no evidence whatever of eoereion by her bußband, and the District Judge so directed the jury, who found, notwithstanding that accused was aotiog under the coercion of her husband, The Jad^p, therefore directed a verdict of not guilty to be reoorded, bu; reserved the question whether he ought to have direoted a verdict of guilty, and this point was now argued brfore the Court of Appeal. Mr Gully, for the Crown, contended that under sub-seotion 208, section 21 of (he Criminal Code Ao', 1893, there was no longer any preeumption of the coeroion of the wife by her husband, and the finding of the jury could not therefore be supported, and must be ignored. There was no appearanoe for accused. The Court reserved ita decision.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXX, Issue 249, 24 October 1894, Page 2
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A CROWN CASE.
Marlborough Express, Volume XXX, Issue 249, 24 October 1894, Page 2
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