ACQUITTED AT THIRD TRIAL
— Press Association. )
(By Telegraph-
PALMERSTON N., This. Day. Three times tried on a serious charge in respect of his daughter, Charles Frederick Neil Johnson, labourer, aged . 39 years, was aequitted by a jury in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North yesterday. On the two previous occasions the juries failed to agree. Sir Michael Myers, Chief Justice, who presided, pointed out that, while it was competent for a jury to convict on the uncorroborated evidence of the party against whom sueh an offence was alleged to have been committed, it was dangerous to do so. As far as this particular case was concerned, there -j was not one vestige of evidence to wbich his Honour could direct the at- »j teuliou of the jury as corraborative, ; e
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 174, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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130ACQUITTED AT THIRD TRIAL Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 174, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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