APPEAL COURT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 15 April 1907, Page 2

APPEAL COURT.

Per Prop's Association. Wellington, April 13. .Judges ,sto«l, Williams. D* ; nni«ton, Chapman, and button are hearing the case Findlay v. King, an application for a,, new t?ial on the ground that lhi» verilict was against Hit; weight of evidence, ■lolnijuudlay was arrested and tried in Dunedin for ilu' murder of Wm. Hav Rennie. schoolmaster at I'apakaio, near Oamant. on (Holier ,*), 1 !MH>. lie was acquitted, and then rearrested on a charge of burglariously breaking into Ronnie's house on October 'A and stealing articles, including a bicycle. At the lirst trial the jury disagreed; nt the second the prisoner was convicted and sentenced to live years. The evidence was lengthy and aWfiost wholly ci rennet a ill ial. Several witnesses said they saw the prisoner in the vicinity about the lime of the minder; two said they met a man on a bicycle in the middle of the night who stated he had lost his way, but they could not positively identify witness as Ihe man. in summing up .Judge Williams remarked a verdict of guilty would practically point to prisoner as the murderer. In addition to the sentence Kindlay wa-s declared an habitual criminal. Mr. lljorring appears for the appellant and Mr. Myers for the Crown.