ALLEGED= DESERTION.
Per Press Association. DUNBDIN, Jub' 10At a Court-martial of Arthur 0. -McCarthv, for alleged desertion, it was sudmitted for the. defence that no court-1 martial in Now Zealand had been.heretofore Mkcd to convict, a person ot <le**iUon. [ii the abfttoce of the Gazette nonce. In addition accused did not 'receive ft special notice to attend for examination. ( ounsel Bubmittcd the verdict of the ( onrt sIIQUId he acquittal. The weakness of this case won that the accused was merely under an oblig'uTion to serve, hut no service ho could desert from had th.oro.bcen required ol mm. The Court, reserved decision.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1861, 10 July 1920, Page 6
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101ALLEGED= DESERTION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1861, 10 July 1920, Page 6
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