THE CHRISTCHURCH BOOK CASES.
A CONVICTION QUASHED
CHRISTCHURCH, December 2.
Mr Justice Denniston, in Banco, to-day heard argument on a motion for a writ of prohibition, arising out of tlie conviction, of G. Rankin, bookseller, for selling "Anna Lombard," a book alleiged to be of an immoral character. Hie Honor said he had read the book, which appealed to him as very Mupid. One passage he remembered which might be objected to, but the magistrate had evidently objected to the nature of the whole book, and was quite justified in doing so. He held that the defendant should have .been given the right of saying wliether he wished to be tried by a jury, and 9ie quashed the conviction.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2856, 9 December 1908, Page 25
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