OVERSEAS PASSAGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21562, 5 August 1933, Page 9

OVERSEAS PASSAGES

LEGAL POINTS RAISED BROWNRIGG REMANDED ; When Harold Bradley Brownrigg apt " poarod before Mr. Justice Herdman ill • the Supreme Court yesterday for sen- , tence for the theft of £l7 from R. G. ; K. Manning, by falsely representing that a company called Overseas Pas- > sages, Limited, could supply him with • a passage to England for £25, his counsel, Mr. E. T. Field, asked His Honor to teserve two points for the Court or ■< Appeal. - Counsel submitted that the facts at*-' leged and proved, taken in conjunction with the contract signed by Manning, . < did not in law amount to theft. He.'* further submitted that His Honor onghfc >» to have directed the jury that in certain eventuality accused would bo entitled to an acquittal. -- r His Honor: Did you ask for that = direction to be given? Mr. Field: No, Your Honor. His Honor said the jury had been » fully directed as to the crimes it had to consider, and there seemed to him ; to bo nothing in Mr. Field s points at all. He would hear Mr. tield later, £ however, if he wished to argue, „ A fixture was made for. Wednesday* ~ His Honor refusing an application for r prisoner's release on bail.