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TOMAHAWK CASE JURY RETURNS YERDICT ON LESSER COUNT AGAINST O'CONNOR TO BE SENTENCED TO-DAY
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DUNEDIN, Wednesday. The trial of Lewis Willlam O'Connor on a charge of murdering Findlay Douglas Buchanan, at Tomahawk, on March 30 last, was continued in the Supreme Court to-day before Mr. Justice Kennedy. Counsel for accused urged that when O'Connor admitted that he had committed the crime, he was in such a condition through drink that he did not know what he was saylng. In the cireumstances, the killing of .Buchanan was not murder. Counsel referred at length to evidence showing that O'Connor was so drunk that he was behaving like. a madman. He submitted that O'Connor was maddened by drink and that he had lost his sound reasoning qualities by reason of the quantity of liquor he had consumed. He was in such acondition that he was incapable of forming any intention. Counsel said he could not plead insanity, but he did plead drunkenness to such an extent as to dethrone accused's reason. The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter and accused was remanded for sentence until to-morrow morning.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 209, 28 April 1932, Page 5
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