The Findlay Case.
FIVE YEARS IMPRISONMENT,
(By Telegraph —Pres® Association.)
WELLINGTON, This Day.
In the King versus Findlay case, in which Findlay was convicted of breaking and entering the house of Rennie, a schoolmaster who was found murdered at Papakaio near Oamaru, prisoner was sentenced to five year*, and declared to be an habitual crimi* nal. The Appeal Court held that the accumulation of circumstantial evidence against the prisoner was sufficient warrant for the jury in coining to the conclusion that he was guilty and the verdict was a proper one. The Court refused to order a new trial and the sentence stands. Latee.
The Appeal Court, in the Findlay case, said the importance of this case consists in the fact that the prisoner’s conviction upon the indictment of burglary necessarily means that though by his acquittal in Becember. 1900, of the charge of murder he has escaped punishment for murder, he was the murderer of Rennie.
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43085, 27 April 1907, Page 2
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157The Findlay Case. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43085, 27 April 1907, Page 2
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