CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER
PIHAMA ACQUITTED. Ey Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, November U Jack Pihama, a young Maori, was acquitted at tho Supreme Court on a cliarge of manslaughter, resulting from 'the death early in August of James White Hooker/ Accused, while running to evade arrest by a constable in Queen Street, collided with Hooker, who expired in the hospital a few hours later. Tho actual cause of death was the bunting of a cyst on one- of the kidneys. The jury in acquitting the accused, said they were not satisfied that death was the direct result of the collision.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 44, 15 November 1917, Page 5
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98CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 44, 15 November 1917, Page 5
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