A MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
ACCUSED ACQUITTED. CONDUCT JUSTIFIED. Press Association. DUNEDIN, May 29. At tho Supreme Court to-day Joseph Coddoi was acquitted oil- charges of manslaughter .'arising out of a collision in. Lower Harbour on April 18. : Counsel for the, defence contended that accused was quite justified in taking the course lie, did and that there was nothing for him but to take such a course, as the Lady Roberts was steering i;v ragged course on tho wrong side of tiio channel.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2204, 30 May 1908, Page 3
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81A MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2204, 30 May 1908, Page 3
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