McLEOD SHOOTING CASE.
Per Press Association. Wellington, April 21. In the Supreme Court to-day, William McLeod, an export rifle shot, came up for sentence. He was convicted on a'charge of having injured Leslie Wilson, a Waikato resident, during a performance at Hamilton Show. AleLeod undertook to shoot off the end of a cigarette which Wilson held in the mouth, but the bullet went tb rough Wilson’s cheek. J.u passing sentence. Air Justice Cooper took into ’ consideration the unique circumstances of the ease; first, that the jury found that accused was a most skilful marksman ; secondly, that he fired at Wilson with the full consent of Wilson ; thirdly, that the injury to Wilson was caused by the bitter involuntarily shifting his head, and AleLeod had compensated Wilson, ki view of these facts, bis honor imposed a line of To, and ordered prisoner to pay £lO 10s costs
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 95, 24 April 1915, Page 8
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146McLEOD SHOOTING CASE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 95, 24 April 1915, Page 8
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