The Recent Manslaughter Case.
EXTRAORDINARY SENTENCE. (pea united pbe.«s association.) Dunedin, This Day. The witnesses in the manslaughter case against the Roys tamed up yesterday and it was proceeded with. The defence was that the lads fire! for amusement, and that they knew nothing of the train w- ich happened to pass at the time. The jury were out for two hours, and then returned into Court with a verdict against both prisoners, with a strong recommendation to mercy on account of their previous good character. They did not think that the firearms were discharged with any intention to injure any one. His Honor thought tha ends of justice would be met by the father of the ■younger boy entering into a recognisance A for his future behaviour. Tbe elder prisoner, John Roy, was sentenced to %wo mouths' imprisonment without hard Inlinr.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 52, 4 October 1883, Page 3
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142The Recent Manslaughter Case. Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 52, 4 October 1883, Page 3
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