ONE SHILLING FINE.
ASSAULT UNDER EXTREME PROVOCATION. NELSON, December 19. In giving a decision in the case in which James Gri-bben was charged with assaulting Arthur Ernest Alfred Wiffen and inflicting facial injuries necessitating four days in hospital, the Magistrate, Mr. T. E. Maunsell, said the assault had not been denied, but the defence was one of extreme provocation. The Magistrate said he could not believe that, the meeting between Wiffen and the defendant’s wife in Wellington was a chance meeting. The Magistrate said he was also satisfied that Wiffen had broken up defendant's home. It was not legal for Gribben to make an assault but as long as human nature was what it was, that would be the natural result, and no law could stop it. The Magistrate said he would inflict a contemptuous penalty so far as Wiffen was concerned. A fine of one shilling without costs was inflicted—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 20 December 1932, Page 5
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151ONE SHILLING FINE. Wairarapa Age, 20 December 1932, Page 5
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