INNOCENT OF OFFENCE.
AN UNUSUAL CASE.
Per Press Association
NEW PLYMOUTH, Sept. 30. To be adjudged innocent or any offence after lie had pleaded guilty was the position in which a defendant to a charge laid under the Land Act, 1924, has been placed as the result of a reserved judgment delivered by Mr W. H. .Woodward S.M. It was alleged against Ernest John Press, of Oakura, that he had subdivided a leasehold property of which he was proprietor without approval of the plans by the Minister. Mrs I. M. Mills, owner of the property, was charged with assisting in the commission of the offence. The Magistrate held that Press, not being the owner of the land, was not responsible for the submission of the plan to the Minister, and there being no offence Mrs Mills could not have assisted him in committing it.
The entering of judgment was delayed to give Press an opportunity to withdraw his plea.
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Manawatu Standard, 1 October 1935, Page 5
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159INNOCENT OF OFFENCE. Manawatu Standard, 1 October 1935, Page 5
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