COURT OF APPEAL.
A MENTAL HOSPITAL CA^IS (Pu Uante Puts AmqoutipVi^^ _ _ WELLINGTON, lac Court of Appeal gave judgment,timM morning- in the caae the King twui Jmkl Leonard, a owe in which the convicted under the of the/MBi tal Defective* Act for having" with his wife, who was detained nwßewjMjpa provisions of the Act. The Leonard “guilty, but with strong- nSSm mendationto mercy, as we believe thsTatpl was committed through ignorance, the laxity pi the hospital autbori£*On' natp warning prisoner.” The Coiirt, with a majority of ope, affirmed the conviction on thp 'that the words of the Statute wte , and the Court oould not hold that ment did not mean what it feaid. v Mr Justice Stringer dissented, side red .that the words' “every person? 3Elffl the Act should not be read to inPiKd£&||M husband. - -•-( as*: 1353
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18543, 2 May 1922, Page 7
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