THE PAPAKAIO MURDER.
Findlay’s Sentence Confirmed. Wellington, Yesterday. In the appeal case of the King v. Findlay, who was convicted of breaking and entering the house of Rennie, the schoolmaster, who was found murdered at Papakaio, near Oamaru, and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and declared an habitual criminal, the Appeal Court held that the accumulation of circumstantial evidence against the prisoner was sufficient to warrant the jury in coming to the conclusion that he was guilty, and the verdict was a proper one. The Court refused to order a new trial, and the sentence stands.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 27 April 1907, Page 3
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97THE PAPAKAIO MURDER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 27 April 1907, Page 3
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