CASE OF DENNIS GUNN.
PETITION FOE KEI’RIEVE. Auckland, .Tune 9. A petition lor Hi* reprieve of Dennis Guiiu, who was convicted of the i 'em - ,oi ; by murder, i- in circulation. X im-cting of those in favour of a cu- > mutation ot the sentence ha- also boon held. At this meeting the spokesman contended that tbe evidence on which the Crown ca-e rested was purely cireiiiustuntial. and was not sufficient for A a decision involving a man’s life. If • lie sentence were comwuated in the terms suggested, and evidence ea-ticj 1 any further light on the affair were iii:-eove-reif; it would not be too late for that evidence lo enable a rectification, whereas i; vcceiioa of the capital acntence would mean the end of ail thing:, the meeting carried a motion expre , ing the opinion that the evidence upoa which the Crown case wan based war not of a eharaeler sufficiently under--tandable to in: satisfactory. The rr -elution :-<■(-< out that the jury who con-vi'-ted Gunn did so on evidence which they were unable to verify; that before any *upfib-ed inerimiuatiiig evidence that i= of a highly technical nature •mu be In-id to be conclusive, especially where the death penalty is involved, such evidence should be referred to disinterested expert opinion.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 11 June 1920, Page 2
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