"KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT"
SOUND ADVICE FROM JUDGE "You had better be quiet and keep your mouth shut; there is n° cas» against you," remarked Mr. Jus "*. Atkinson, at Newcastle Assizes., James Battista, .aged 40. ... Battista, having pleaded not B" u .- to a charge of bigamy, persisted . putting irrolevent questions to nesses called for the prosecution. , Mr. Cohen, prosecuting, ® x P'£ l ; u that Battista married his legal April, 1922, at North Shields., A* mouths, later she left him, and in ber, 1932, Battista went through form of mnrriago at Newcastle young woman named Lily Alacan'J- flo Counsel admitted that there wa . « evidence that Battista ever coni cated with, or saw his wife ait left him, or knew whether she was a °r not. , A < the Without calling on the defenCO, judge directed the jury •t° r l . f : g j a verdict of "Not guilty," and was at onco released from custo y-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22909, 11 December 1937, Page 2 (Supplement)
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