SHOOTING WITH INTENT TO KILL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2550, 10 June 1882, Page 4

SHOOTING WITH INTENT TO KILL.

David MoNevin, on remand from Wednesday, was charged at the S.M. Court yesterday morning, before Mr Ollivier, H.M., with the above offence.

Mr MoOonnel appeared for accused. The following evidence waa taken in this case yesterday after we went to press : Edward Hughes, sergeant of police, doposed to haying, in company with Detective Henjamin, gone to Mr loomsr’* house on the night in question. The detective arrested prisoner on the present charge, The weapons produced were pointed out by Mr Toomer. The revolver is self-cooking. The hammer was -resting on an exploded cartridge, and the chamber nest to the hammer was loaded. The other chambers were empty. The knife wae lying close to the revolver. Mr Toomer, jun., handed witness a bullet, which fits exactly the empty cartridge found in the pistol, [Witness described the bullet mark in the wall.] He thought if the bullet had gone through the board its track would have heen in the direction of the fireplace. Prisoner made no answer to the charge. Ho was handcuffed, and complained that the officers were treating him very badly by keeping the handonff on the wrist of the wounded hand. He said if the handcuffs were removed he would go along quietly and give no trouble. He was relieved at once, and afterwards eioiped, but subsequently surrendered himself at the depot. Cross-examined —The wound waa a freeh bullet wound from the palm through the fleshy part of the left hand. If the prisoner bad been holding the muzzle of the pistol in his left hand, thus partly covering the boro, witness could not say what would have hap. pened if it was fired accidentally. The pistol was not much good. [ln reply to other questions, witness declined to give his opinion aa to what might have happened under certain hypothetical circumstances,] Ho did not think that a bullet fired from the pistol woald go through an inch board. The pistol would be an uncertain weapon, but might possibly kill a man at the distance of fourteen feet.

This mi the case for the prosecution. The defence was reserved, ond prisoner was committed for trial at the next session of the Supremo Court to be held at Christchurch, Bail was allowed— prisoner, himself, in £SOO, and two sureties in £250 each.