AN APPEAL CASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14835, 11 November 1911, Page 8

AN APPEAL CASE.

. _ > - Kiai * . MISTAKEN IDENTITY ALLEGED ■ An appeal against the action of two jus* . tices of the peace in the Police Court in sentencing a middle-aged labouring man , to three months' imprisonment for alleged indecent behaviour was heard before Hi* -, Honor Mr. Justice Edwards in the Su» preme Court - yesterday. , Mr. Selwya I Mays appeared for the Justice Department, and Mr. W. E. Hackett for the 1 appellant, Bertram Sylvado. The allegation was that Sylvado indecently- ex* f posed himself before three young gins '' "> in Jervois Road, Ponsonby, on Saturday evening, August 5, and the case had 1 ■ several peculiar features. The principal; one was that the man whom the w*. formants . complained of was wiring J J ' skull-cap, and carrying an overcoat - a parcel, but when they returned to tha * street about an hour later with a constable and pointed out Sylvado as the alleged offender he was wearing a hard gg | hat, and carrying neither a parcel nor an * overcoat. For the defence it was admitted that the offence. might have been.com* mitted, but that if anyone did molest the girls it- was not 'defendant, who, . » was contended, had not been -in' tM\ vicinity at the time mentioned in tn« information. After hearing evidence lor both sides His Honor reserved decisiony . r till 10 a.m. to-day. .> f j^jj — „ t yL"