The Dunedin Murder Case.
ACCUSED SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEABS' PENAL SERVITUDE. tPEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.!' .■ - D o nedist. March 14. In connection with the South Dunedin case the Judge's summing up was lengthy. The jury returned at 9.80 with a verdict of manslaughter against bolh accused. The judge in passing sentence said the jury had taken a merciful view of the case. The circumstances as disclosed in the evidence were sufficiently doubtful to justify them in giving the accused the benefit of the doubt. He then sentenced Dobson aud Kufner to seven years' penal servitude. Both were then arraigned for unlawfully wounding Charles Ashton. Replying to tbe Crown Prosecutor, the JndgesaiAhe was not likely to increase the sentence. Mr Haggitt suggested the prgsoners should plead guilty, but their counsel . declined. The jury, by bis Honor's direction, then returned a verdict of not r guilty '
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 264, 15 March 1894, Page 2
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143The Dunedin Murder Case. Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 264, 15 March 1894, Page 2
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