TWO PERJURY CHARGES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 819, 13 November 1929, Page 11

TWO PERJURY CHARGES

FATHER AND SON IN COURT \ BY-LAW CASE SEQUEL j ry xs AsHOCi’itto” 1 INVERCARGILL. Today. 1 Two charges of perjury were heard < before Mr. Justice Kennedy in the : Supreme Court yesterday, when Bat-j r U .k O’Donnell and his son. Joseph O'Donnell, appeared to answer charges I arising out of a motor by-law case m the lower court. Joseph O’Donnell appeared first, , nd enter® i a plea of guilty. His > . Honour remanded prisoner for sen- * tenet until l*» a.m. on Monday. Patrick O’Donnell pleaded not '•uiltv The Crown Prosecutor, in ! L outlining the charge to the jury, said tiie accused had sworn that his catcud his son had been at home at the time in question. When evidence ; car had j been see n In Invercargill, accused’s - M ,u had later pleaded guilty to hay- . .1. i V-U the car on the night tuj. ,"u.-sti.'ti There was direct evidence. • t . ..„t v .f a constable who det ti d the minor offence, but also of a young c who accompanied the >outn O’Donnell in the car on tbe night .n \ quest t. tl at Us * “ '/ ' ' £ iv trem home and in Inters aivih. - Th- facts were brought to the., !;“ U ln!:i I 'until 1 j a une S U* tT i ' , a. c ised. in making his statement - upon oath before the , . well aware ot its talsit>. , ' , ft er evidence for the prosecution ; , Lj Vrn given the court adjourned , in til today. |