* How do you plead, guilty or not' guilty?” asked the Clerk of the Court of a defendant in a by-law case at a sitting of the Timaru Magistrate’s Court. ‘I plead guilty, and yet I’m not guilty. I’m a married man . . .” “You’re not charged with being a married man,” the Magistrate (Mr C. R. Orr-Walker) interjected, amidst laughter.
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Otago Witness, Volume 1851, Issue 3809, 15 March 1927, Page 57
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