SUPREME COURT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9003, 16 November 1907, Page 2

SUPREME COURT.

Press Association; Auckland, November 16. At the Supremo Court to-day before Mr Justice Denniston, Edward McDonald, a young waiter, who stabbed another with a file, was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon. His Honor remarked that if prisoner had not pleaded guilty he probably would have been acquitted on tiro ground of great provocation. TT , In tbo case of Richard Hnrland, "aged 43, charged with a criminal offence against his own uioco, the •jury found him guilty. Counsel for prisoner asked leave to apply to the 1 Court of Appeal for a re-trial on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. Specific questions were put to the jniy by His Honor (1) “Did the Prisoner believe the girl to bo over lb. ("1 If the answer’ were yes had. he reasonable cause for such belief. The jury had ignored the question and found “We think there arc reasonable grounds for believing .that prisoner know the girl' was under the ago of 16P

Counsel. submitted there was uo evidence in support and that the jury had practically disregarded the whole evidence except the fact or relationship which weighed With them to an undue extent. His Honor said that on the question “was prisoner’s intimacy with the family sufficient to justify Die jury’s finding: 1 ” he did not feel quite clear himself and promised to consider the matter.