JUDGE’S DIRECTION
REQUESTS AN ACQUITTAL.
(By Telegraph—Press Association).
GISBORNE, Aug. 29.
Directing the jury to return a verdict of not guilty, in a case in which Monte Glover, alias Gossett, was charged with burglary at the premises of Tuparoa Trading Coy., justice MacGregor, referring to the evidence of a native witness said:—ln my opinion it would be unsafe to convict anyone on this man’s evidence. He is ooviously a liar and a thief. This morning he cells us that the evidence he gave yesterday was a pack of lies; that he was not there, and about Glover 'having been there. The fact that an accomplice contradicts his evidence casts the gravest doubt upon ...e matter. It would be unsafe and dangerous to convict anyone on suc-Ii evidence, the evidence of a convicted hier and obviously a confirmed liar. It is better that ten guilty men should escape than one innocent should be found guilty. The jury immediately gave a verdict of acquittal.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1929, Page 5
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162JUDGE’S DIRECTION Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1929, Page 5
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