BIGAMY OFFENCE
JUDGE'S REMARKS IN COURT YEAR'S GAOL FOR OFFENDER - [from our own correspondent] HAMILTON, Friday Twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour, for bigamy, was imposed on Robert Douglas Little, aged 37, a carpenter, of Te Awamutu, by Mr. Justice Reed in the Supreme Court at Hamilton to-day. Mr. A. Tompkins., for prisoner, said there were some unusual features in the case. His client had lived happily with his wife for 14 years and had two children. He went to Whakatane to look for work and there he met a woman with whom, three weeks later, he went through a form of marriage. Counsel said that prisoner had apparently become so infatuated with the woman that he took temporary leave, of his senses. His act was not premeditated. . His Honor said the case was some,what different from the class in which a man had been separated from his wife for a number of years. Unfortunately bigamy cases were becoming rather common.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23339, 6 May 1939, Page 16
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