LETTERS TO COURT
(Press Assn.) WELLINGTON. May 16. When the Supreme Court .sat today the Chief Justice, Rt. Hon. Sir Michael Myers, addressed a statement to the Crown Prosecutor. Mr Weston. K.C., in which he said that he and others had been receiving letters which had gone to the waste paper basket as seemingly the product of a disordered mind, but the man had now commenced to write upon matters which were at the time, and still are, suh judice. That could not be permitted. One letter reflected upon thu honesty of the administration •of justice by the Courts generally. "I am ordering a letter to he handed to yon so that proper inquiries may be made as to. the mental condition of the writer of letters. If he is sane enough to be allowed to remain at large outside a mental hospital ho should he called upon to show cause why he should not he committed for contempt," the Chief Justice said. The man wa,s not a person, as far as he could see, even indirectly concerned with the matters referred to.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 16 May 1941, Page 6
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183LETTERS TO COURT Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 141, 16 May 1941, Page 6
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