MURDER CHARGE
CASE AGAINST Y'OUNG MAORI. JUDGE SUMS UP, (Per Press Association — Copyright.) AUCKLAND, August 10. When the murder trial was resumed to-day, Justice Smith said he had decided that the last statement made by accused to the police, before his -arrest was inudniissabi'e as evidence. Addressing the jury, counse] asked them to dismiss from their mind everything except the evidence. There was -‘no evidence ; tp connect the bov, with ’anything except a petty theft and it was hot proved lie was near, the dead ; man’s hut. . b'Summing-up, the ..Fudge said there was ievidefice that accused was subject ;to rapid, ■ emotional chaug. s, but none, to fLprov violent tendercies. : f’herjp was no . definite evidence to 1 connect the accused with striking of the blow that caused death.. The jury ' tft-uisf} be satisfied that it was the nc--bUsed who wielded the axe, before they '(convicted him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1932, Page 6
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145MURDER CHARGE Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1932, Page 6
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