OMAHD MURDER CASE. Wellington, Nov. 2.
The Omahu murder case is still proceeding. No witnesses havo been called for tlie defence. Mr Cotteril addressed the jury ior the Grown, and asked them in the first place to put aside all questions as to whether the Donnelly or Broughton party were the aggressors. He presumed the defence would be on two lines ; firstly provocation, but he thought that the prisoner was a Maori ' of the old school and a man of hasty temper who was likely to be greatly irritated by the action of the Donnelly party. The learned counsel quoted eases to show that provocation and hasty temper were not allowed as palliatives of murder. It would not do to permit natives to take the law in their own hands without being punishable. No doubt Turanga's party were wrong in going on the land and behaving as they did, but that was no provocation for such a murderous attack,
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 417, 6 November 1889, Page 4
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159OMAHD MURDER CASE. Wellington, Nov. 2. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 417, 6 November 1889, Page 4
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