QUESTION OF PENALTY
Case To Be Stated For Supreme Court
ILLEGAL DISTILLATION PA INVERCARGILL, July 20. A case will be stated lor the opinion of the Supreme Court on the question of the maximum penalty for the breaches of the Distillation Act, 1908, admitted 'by Gerald Peter Enright, a farmer, of Timpany’s. This was the decision of the magistrate, Mr W. A, Harlow, when the case was resumed in the Magistrate's Court today. Enright was remanded until August 30, bail being allowed at £SOO, with sureties of £SOO. Enright was charged with being in possession of a still and with unlawfully making spirits. He pleaded guilty to both charges. Following further submissions made by Mr J R. Mills, for the Crown, and Mr A. T. Wayne, counsel for Enright, on the question of the offences and the question of penalty, the magistrate said he was left in considerable doubt about the question of the penalty. It was particularly important, and he thought that this was properly an instance when the courts should state a case for the dpinion of the Supreme Court.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27447, 21 July 1950, Page 4
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