PETERSFIELD
Agent—MR. G. DUPLOCK
PETTY SESSIONS.—Tuesday.—Present: Major Briggs and J. Waddington, Esq.
— George Taylor pleaded guilty to a charge of removing a heifer on the highway without a license on Tuesday, May 7th. The heifer belonged to Mr. Richard Pink, of Hambledon, who sent defendant on the day in question to fetch it from Ashurst, near Petersfield. P.C. Troke deposed to meeting defendant in College-street, Petersfield, driving the heifer. When he asked him if he had a license, he replied ‟No, master said it did not require a license if we brought it in a cart.” Mr. Richard Pink, on being called by defendant, explained to the magistrates that early in the morning of the day in question, before sending defendant for the heifer, he went to Mr. Higgins, a magistrate at Hambledon, to obtain a license; that gentleman was not up, and the servant went to his bedroom, and returned with a message that no license was required. He had, however, since seen Mr. Higgins, who told him that the message he sent by the servant was that a license must be obtained. This statement of Mr. Pink, although it could not be admitted as legal evidence, was received by the bench as showing that the case arose from a misapprehension, and defendant was adjudged to pay the mitigated penalty of 5s., with 11s. 6d. costs. This was the only case before the bench