A QUESTION OF IDENTITY.
AND A VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY.
(By Telerraph.—Press Association.! Auckland, August 20. Paul Eugene Scrim has become famous for tlio part he took in recent burglaries to Mireo charges of which he has pleaded guilty. However, crime very different in nature was preferred against him at tho Supreme Court, over which Justice Cooper presided. Ho was charged with having assaulted Alfred Jas. Roberts at Epsom un Juno i! 5, and causing actual bodily harm. Evidence was heard at length, aiid his Honour, in. summing up, said that the whole question was one of identity. It was all very well to say that tho case for tho Crown was abundantly clear, but boiled down it depended solely upon the evidence of Roberts. There had bswi many miscarriages of justioe, and in this ease tho jury must be very careful to consider whether Itoherts had rightly identified his assailant. The jury, without retiring, immediately gave a verdict of not guilty. His Honour remarked that he entirely agreed with the decision.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1524, 21 August 1912, Page 4
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172A QUESTION OF IDENTITY. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1524, 21 August 1912, Page 4
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