LETTER TO COURT
“ DESERVED TO GET OFF” A LAD’S LEGAL ARGUMENT A letter to the Court from a boy of eighteen, George Hartland Palmer, caught the interest of Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., recently. The boy was charged with cycling at night without a light. In his letter he pointed out that the time of the offence was 8.5 p.m. He enclosed a clipping from a newspaper to show that sunset on that day was 7.40 o'clock, and added the information that under the by-laws he was allowed half an hour s grace after sunset, so that he could hot have committed an offence. Constable G. Simpson said the time by his watch when he stopped the boy was 8.15. When the newspaper clipping was exhibited Senior-Sergeant Fox remarked with a smile that they would have to attack the correctness of the newspaper. “They are always correct,” was Mr. Mosley’s reply. • , The senior-sergeant added that the boy deserved to get off. \ The Magistrate struck a compromisel and convicted and discharged the boy.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 64, 9 March 1933, Page 5
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