APPEAL COURT DECISION.
QUESTION OF INDIAN'S FLEA,
[BY TELEGR-Va—PEESS ASSOCIATION-]
WELLINGTON', Friday. IK the Court of Appeal to-day the ca?a Itex v. Nunda was argued. The Court -ivae occupied by the Crown case, reserved by Mr. Justice Stringer, for the opinion of the Court of Appeal. The prisoner, * Punjabi, had pleaded guilty to a charge of having opened a postal packet. It was alleged that, though there was an interpreter, there was r.a evidence thai the evidence of the English witnesses had been translated to prisoner. There van no moreover, oa record that the question whether ho wished to plead guilty or not guilty had been translated". The Chief Justice, delivering judgment, expressed the opini that this Court of Appeal had no jurisd;ci tion, in the case of a prisoner who hid, pleaded guilty and had been committed for sentence, to deal with the commitment foi sentence or hear any motion for re-trial. The procedure to be followed must be distinct proceedings to Mi wide the commitment {or sentence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13967, 28 September 1918, Page 8
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