CONVICTION QUASHED
DEFENCE PREJUDICED LONDON, Jan. L'7. Justices Talbot, Miicnaghlen ant! Du t'arcq, in the Court of Criminal Apponl yesterday, quashed ' Die con viction of Frederick Roberts, who had been sentenced at London County Sessions to three years' penal servitude on n charge of fraudulent conversion of money entrusted to him by a woman to pay her rent.
The court held that Roberta was cross-examined as to his suggested past record in such a way that his defence might have been prejudiced.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18962, 12 March 1936, Page 11
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82CONVICTION QUASHED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18962, 12 March 1936, Page 11
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