UNUSUAL APPEAL CASE.
CONVICTION CONFIRMED. I"BX TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Monday. The Court of Appeal gave judgment '■ this morning in the case of the King ' versus John Leonard, a case in which the husband was convicted for having interj course with his -wife, who w?is detained under the provisions of tho Mental I Defectives Act. The jury found that j Leonard was guilty, but made a strong j recommendation to mercy, as they be--1 lie'ved the act was . committed through ignorance, also through laxity of the hosj pital authorities in not warning the j prisoner. The Court, by a majority of . ' three to one, affirmed the conviction on j the pround that the words of the Statute | were plain, and the Court could not hold j that Parliament did not mean what it =aid. Mr. Justice Stringer dissented. I tie considered the words "Every Person" j in the Act should not be read to include j j a husband
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18079, 2 May 1922, Page 9
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