JURY DISCHARGED
UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT. BY Tecegbaph.—press association. Hamilton, February 29. There was an unexpectetl development In the Supremo Court case this morning, when a young piano salesman, Raymond Gifford, was charged with so negligently driving a vehicle as to cause the death of Leslie Sponccr, aged 20, in a collision which occurred between the defendant’s car and Spencer’s motor-cycle at five crossroads, Claudelands, on December 19. Tiio case had proceeded some distance when His Honour, after a few minutes’ adjournment, said that it had been reported to him that a member of the jury had been a fellow-worker of the deceased. To avoid a question concerning the fairness of the- trial, and with the concurrence of both counsel, Mr. Justice Blair discharged the jurv, and a new one will be empanelled to-mor-row. Tho Court thereupon adjourned for the remainder of the day.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 7
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142JURY DISCHARGED Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 7
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