LEAVE TO APPEAL
APPLICATION DISMISSED (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Appeal Court delivered judgment in the case of James Milward Houston, who applied for leave to appeal from his conviction upon forty-five counts relating to the alleged receiving of certain moneys and failure to account for them to John Burns and Co., Ltd. Tlie Court dismissed the application without calling' upon the SolicitorGeneral to reply. The Chief Justice said that upon a truo construction of t'ne agreement entered into by the parties; prisoner was required to account for and pay to John Burns and Co. ...Ltd , tho landed cost ot goods sold by him, plus 15 per cent If prisoner was required to account and .fraudently omitted to do so, he committed theft' and was properly convicted The question as ! to whether or not proper accounts had been kept by him was one for tho jury who had answered it in Hie negative. . Mr Justices Reed, Ostler and Johnston. also agreed. The application filed by prisoner linnself for leave to appeal against the sen teneo imposed was also dismissed.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 28 June 1934, Page 5
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181LEAVE TO APPEAL Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 28 June 1934, Page 5
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