SUPREME COURT
RE-TRIAL OF STOREY
EFFECT OF JURY'S VERDICT
The jury at the re-trial in the Supreme Court of Alfred Edward Storey, ordered by the Court of Appeal, | on a charge of manslaughter, or, alternatively, causing tho death by negligent driving of Norman "Webb Cook and Violet Amelia Cook as a result of a collision with tho accused's car in Ngahauranga Gorge in May last, returned a verdict of not guilty on the first count. On the second count it found that Storey was guilty of negligent driving, but not to the extent of having thereby caused the death of Mr. and Mrs. Cook. Mr. H. H. Cornish, who, with Mr. N. A. Foden, appeared for Storey, submitted that the verdict amounted to one of not guilty, and his Honour Mr. Justice MacGregor said that seemed to bo tho'position. Leave was, however, reserved to the Crown and accused's counsel to move tho Court and argue the question of the effect of the verdict. Storey was discharged in the meantime. GUILTY OF BEDEWING. Cloment Robert Lawson, for whom Mr. Meltzer appeared, was found guilty on a charge of having received a stolen motor-eyclc, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. On a charge of the theft of the motor-cycle and another charge concerning a Post Office money-box and contents, alleged to have been taken from,the White Swan Hotel, the jury acquitted the accused. LawsoE was remanded for sentence. PRISONER DISCHARGED. A verdict of not guilty on all charges was returned in the case of William Francis Calvert, and the prisoner was discharged. Calvert -was charged with breaking and entering and theft; and of receiving stolen property, knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. The charges arose out of a serieß of burglaries in Featherston, Petone, and Lower Hutt, committed last September and October, and another at Pahiatua. A brother of tho accused and a man named William Thomas pleaded guilty to all charges in the Magistrate's Court, but William Calvert admitted having taken part only in the burglary at Pahiatua.. ■ ~ '
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 4
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339SUPREME COURT Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 4
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