SUPREME COURT.
SEXUAL OFFENCES. [Per Press Association.] AUCKLAND, \t the Supreme Court criminal ses-« •sions the; Chief Justice said that thej calendar contained fifteen charge, in* eluding five; sexual offences and one charge of murder- Ha expressed the. opinion that crimes against girls under the, ago of consent would decrease if? common juries were content to accept! the stories of the children, and, further, that the law could be amended so that no man could ga-ve himself by merely pleading ignorance of a gm's age. _______—. J
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12084, 13 August 1917, Page 5
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