Sumpter v Stevenson - [1939] NZLR 446

Criminal Law — Indecent Publications — Classical Works — Delivery by way of Hire — Lending Library — Whether Hire of the "Decameron" an Offence — Nature and Circumstances of Hiring or Selling — "Purpose with which the act was done" — Onus of Proof — Indecent Publications Act, 1910, ss 3, 5, 8.