Supreme Court Sessions.
i -• * ! Per Press Association. Wanganui. May 66. — Selina Hughes and John Hughes were found guilty on a charge of incest. The woman was recomimended to mercy. Dunedin, May 26. — James Grey and Frank Skolton were found guilty of robbery and violence, sentence being deferred. The hearing of a charge of assault against Frank Hal ligan, an expressman, was not concluded. Waaganui, May 27. — An important point was raised in the Supreme Court this morning by Mr Mackay, who defended a prisoner charged with incest w i fch bis illegitimate daughter. Counsel Jjjlil that the English law of marriage followed the Levitieal law, and the latter had no application in the present case. Scotch law, though holding incest a capital offence, btld that incest could not be committed with bastard relations. Mr Fitzherbert, for the Crown, held that criminality did not depend upon parents going through the marriage ceremony, ana the spirit of th 9 Act was intended to prevent relationships such as existed between the parties in the present case j The Chief Justice reserved the point for the Court of Appeal, therd being no decision en the point in the colony.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 11977, 27 May 1902, Page 3
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195Supreme Court Sessions. Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 11977, 27 May 1902, Page 3
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