"NOT GUILTY"
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Insanity Verdict In Murder Charge
(By Telegraph-
AUCKLAND, Last Night. A verdict of not guilty on the ground that the accused was insane at the time the crime was committed, was r»-, turned by the jury in the _ Supreme Court to-day in the case in which Johnny Toka, a Maori, aged 24, was charged with the murdex of his fatber at Patumahoe. The father was shot while the family were seated round a fire ip. a whare on the night of February 21.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 4
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