GUILTY OF PERJURY

Press, Volume C, Issue 29506, 6 May 1961, Page 14

GUILTY OF PERJURY

Jury’s Verdict

George Albert Stewart, aged 24, a carpenter, was found guilty by a jury In the Supreme Court yesterday of committing perjury. Mr Justice Macarthur remanded him in custody for sentence on May 12. The jury took 45 minutes to reach its verdict. Mr R. W. Edgley conducted the case for the Crown, and Mr A. F. Wilding appeared for Stewart. Stewart was charged with knowingly making a false assertion in evidence on his own behalf, with intent to mislead the Court, when defending a charge of having operated a motorcycle in High street on September 17, 1990. during the hearing of the charge in the Magistrate’s Court on November 18, 1960. The Crown evidence was that a police sergeant and constable saw Stewart riding the motor-cycle in High street on the day in question. Stewart, in evidence on his own behalf, denied riding a motor-cycle at all that day. address to the jury, Mr Wilding said the or.iy question was whether the accused had been riding the motor-cycle. The jury had to decide, after hearing all the evidence, whether the police sergeant and constable could have been mistaken. Counsel submitted that the ■wo police witnesses were not able to describe the ac-motor-cycle exactly, and that the constable had ‘ h ? re were other motor-cycles about at the