DEVA KALA.
GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
PALMERSTON X., Aug. »>. In the Deva Ivala trial the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter. Mr Justice Reed imposed a sentence of twenty years' hard labour. The Judge remarked that the jury had taken a very lenient view of the case. His Honour thought that the facts pointed to murder. He was unable to agree that a man was justified in using a lethal instrument because he was called names, as the prisoner had been. If it went forth that a, man was justified in killing another person because of things of that sort, it would be a shocking state of affairs. Furthermore he could not lose sight ol the fact that Deva Ivala was an India, and that there were others of his countrymen in New Zealand.
His Honour said that he knew something of fndan alfa.irs in Fiji, where there were a large number of murders committed and these often upon wives. It was necessary for him to take that into consideration, and, as a. warning to the other Indians in this country, he must impose an exemplary sentence.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1927, Page 3
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190DEVA KALA. Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1927, Page 3
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