CRIMINAL SITTINGS.
(Peii Units!) Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 21. Mr Justice Edwards, in charging the Grand Jury at the oriminal sittings, said he considered that a too narrow construction had. been put by magistrates on the Summary- Jurisdiction Act, particularly in regard to such minor offences as tho ( thcft of small articles from dwellings and from vessels in port; and tlio theft of small sums by clerks from their employers. If these ca.«s were dealt with summarily a large siim wc-uld bo saved to the country, and the cost of needless prosecutions avoided. Ho further pointed out that many cases of breaking and entering would, if common sefise were exercised, appear simply as ihefi.v aml suggcstec! that the law filioidd bo amended so as to prevent trumpery charges from being treated as they were at present. Robert ' Polce HeigliWny: . nleadcd guilty to 17 charges of the theft of postal packets, and was • sentenced to; three years on each charge,. the sentences to be conCurrent. William Morrow Taylor, charged vljth iwiving stolen property from Heighwas Kntenced toisa^^i
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13137, 22 November 1904, Page 5
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176CRIMINAL SITTINGS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 13137, 22 November 1904, Page 5
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