MANSLAUGHTER
YOUNG MAORI CONVICTED , P.A. AUCKLAND, This Day. After a two days' hearing before Mr. Justice Cornish, the trial of William Martin, a 21-year-old Maori, 911 a charge of the manslaughter of William Arnesen at Pakotai on April 2, ended with a* verdict of guilty. The prisoner was remanded for sentence.' No evidence was called for the defence. In'his r.ddress to the jury Mr. Gerard, counsel for the defence, stressed the point that the only evidence connecting the accused with the fatal blow was his own statement. The whole of the evidence indicated that the accused entered the affray to protect his father, and then had to strike the other man with a stone in self defence, without time to consider the possible effect. . The Judge,' in summing up, said the question was whether the accused was in such grievous peril that he had to strike the other man with, a stone as he did. Arnesen's skull was fractured in a melee between three Arnesen brothers and a number of Maoris.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 23, 27 July 1945, Page 8
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171MANSLAUGHTER Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 23, 27 July 1945, Page 8
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