SUPREME COURT

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1929, Page 6

SUPREME COURT

CONVICTED of PERJURY

SOUTHLAND CASE,

(By Telegraph—Press Association)

INVERCARGILL, Nov. 13

A verdict of guilty was returned by the jury in the Supreme Court this morning, in the case against Patrick O’Connell, charged with perjury. Mr Justice Kennedy announced that he would not deliver sentence until Monday, when the son of accused, who pleaded guilty to a similar charge, will also he sentenced. Accused, who pleaded not guilty, was charged with falsely swearing as follows: “I am quite certain my ear was not. out of the garage on the night of April 12, 1929. My son Joseph was not out of the house that night. Neither he nor the car was in Invercargill that night.” The case arose out of charges preferred against accused and Ids son Joseph, of driving a car without a tail light in Invercargill on the night of April 12. When the case was first heard in the lower Court, accused and his son denied that either Joseph or the car was in town on the night in question, but at a rehearing of the case later. Joseph O’Connell pleaded guilty and was fined. In the Supreme Court to-day, James Smith Sharp, labourer, of Mataura. was found not guilty on a charge of theft of a £5 note from *a hut at Waitane on October 14.