REX V. YOUNG.
CASE BEFORE COURT OF APPEAL. WELLINGTON, July 13. The Appeal Court was engaged this morning hearing argument on certain law points which were reserved at the trial in May last of William Thomas Young on a charge of sedition with reference to a speech made by him on October 26, 1913, at the Basin Reserve, Wellington, during the recent waterside workers’ strike. The main question is whether the conviction and punishment of Young for inciting people to resist the- police, which was founded upon certain words in the same speech, the whole of which was looked at by the magistrate, are an answer to the present proceedings. Mr Justice Hosking at the trial overruled this objection, retying on Holland’s case, and reserved the question for the consideration of the Appeal Court. Young was convicted of sedition, but sentence was postponed pending the decision of the Appeal Court on this question and certain minor questions on the admissibility of certain evidence. Mr T. M. Wilford and Mr P. J. O’Regan appeared for the accused, and the Solicitorgeneral for the Crown. Argument was concluded and decision was reserved.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 31
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189REX V. YOUNG. Otago Witness, Issue 3148, 15 July 1914, Page 31
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