FATHER NOT ASSAULTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 634, 10 April 1929, Page 11

FATHER NOT ASSAULTED

0. L. UDY ACQUITTED SUPREME COURT TRIAL Press Association MASTERTON, To-day. The jury at 1 p.m. to-day returned a verdict of not guilty in the case in which Owen Llewellyn Udy, aged 18, of Carterton, was charged with assaulting his father and doing him actual bodily harm. When the court resumed this morning accused said he had just finished killing a sheep and had brought the fat to the safe when he had an argument with his mother over old fat left in the safe. “The old man came out of the house and gave me a smack on the jaw. I just stepped back,” he said. His father made another smack at him. He put up his left hand to ward off his father, -who fell. His father tried to get up, but he pushed him down again. Accused stated he told Detective Jarrold two or three times that it was an accident, but the detective would not take this part of the statement down, and said it was not an accident, and that he was scared of the old man and let him have it. Accused described as untrue that he stabbed his father, as appeared in his statement to a detective, which he only looked through, as he was nearly asleep at the time. The jury retired at 12.30 to consider the verdict.