WOMAN ACQUITTED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 169, 4 August 1937, Page 3

WOMAN ACQUITTED

-Presa Assooiatiou.)

Carried Screaming from Court

(By Telegraph-

AUCKLAND, Last. Night. The retrial of Dorothy Baker, ma*ned, agpd 33, concluded before Mr, Justice Fair in the Supreme Court. The two charges against her were of counselling or procuring Raymond Grigg to" use unlawfully; an instrument oa a girj aged !9 at Panmure and on her own caughter, aged 14, on August 25, .1936. Ihe . jury failed to agree on the case about ten days ago. Af i,er hearmg the evidence, his Honour directed tho jury tliat on the second .count, relatmg to accused's daughter, there was no evidence to justify the S th Dg tk6 charSe ^s true, and must find a verdict of not guiity. With regard to the first charge, they must not allow themselves to be influenced by the fact that the chief J ,GC, YaS not being Pr°secuted, as they had been told the police had been iTn ff 1° find him- Eis Honour tbought the evidence of the mother and SrornJ S C°Unt might be accepted as reliable m every respect. Accused's ^ent admitted the fact relied upon byLhe Crown to establish the offence. hours tli'G retirement of ^o and a-half Lours the jury returned with a verdict guiity, and accused was discharged 0n hearing the verdict she collapsed m the doek and had to be' enrried screaming from the Court.