AN AMBIGUOUS VERDICT
CHARGE AGAINST YOUNG WOMAN. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 18. A young woman named Hilda Holden, who was tried some time ago on a charge of manslaughter at Whangarei following the death of her newly-born infant, appeared before Mr Justice Chapman at the Supreme Court this afternoon for sentence. The finding of the jury which tried the girl was the subject of recent Appeal Court proceedings to dereimine the effect of the verdict. The jury slated that the child’s death was caused by the mo! her when she was not in a mental condition to realise the effect of her
1 The Court of Appeal decided that this [ was a verdict of manslaughter, because there was no finding that accused did not know the nature and quality of her act. ! His Honour, after questioning accused’s brother, told the girl that he was convinced her act was not deliberate hm was due to the state of distress in which she was at the • time. He ordered her to come up for senI fence wh-ti called upon provided she went to live with her brother.
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Southland Times, Issue 18825, 19 May 1920, Page 5
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187AN AMBIGUOUS VERDICT Southland Times, Issue 18825, 19 May 1920, Page 5
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