TO BE REOPENED.
CASE AGAINST POLITICIANS,
ALLEGED INSULTS TO POLICE. Received February 20, 1.30 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 20. It is rumoured that though they were acquitted at Kurri on charges of using insulting words to the police at Cessnock on November 11. .Ur Baddeley, a member of the State Assembly. and Mr James, a member of the Federal House of Representatives, will probably hear more of the matter.
The Chief Secretary is calling for reports of the case. He says it is a most extraordinary verdict and in the interests of justice the matter cannot be allowed to remain where it is.
Apparently out of the three members of the' Court, one found the charge proved and two decided to dismiss the case. It is strange that Justices of the Peace should sit on the Bench in the circumstances. It is pointed out that the two Justices in question are presidents of branches of the Australian Labour Party. It is officially explained that outside stipendiary magistrates districts any Justice of the Peace has a right to sit on the Bench with a police magistrate, and in. such cases the verdict goes by the majority.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 73, 21 February 1930, Page 2
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194TO BE REOPENED. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 73, 21 February 1930, Page 2
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