CROWN SUITS ACT
SECTIONS RELATING TO RECOGNIZANCES. INTERPRETATION SOUGHT. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, October 20. The Court of Appeal (Mr Justice Kennedy) dealt with the application of the Crown for an interpretation of sections of the Crown Suits Act relating to recognizances. George Arthur King came before the Court at Waimate in Februa'ry of this year charged with a certain offence and was 'committed for trial at the following sessions of the Supreme Court. He was admitted to bail in his own bond and in the bond of Robert Grant Scott, of Timaru. King failed to appear at the Supreme Court and on August 1 an application was brought by the Crown for estreat of Scott’s recognizance, there being some doubt whether or not the Court had discretion concerning the matter. The question was reserved for argument in the Court of Appeal. Mr Taylor for the Crown submitted that under Section 5 of the Crown Suits Act the Court had no discretion, but was bound to order estreat although it »had power under Section 7, if it thought fit, to order the withholding of execution. Scott was not represented. The Court reserved its decision.
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Southland Times, Issue 21219, 21 October 1930, Page 7
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