NOT GUILTY
FOURTH CHARGE AGAINST A MAN FAILS.
Auckland, August 20. Paul Eugene Serim has become famous for the part he took in the recent burglaries, to three charges of which h# had pleaded guilty. However, crime very different in nature was preferred against him at the Supreme Court to-day, over which Mr. Justice Cooper presided. He was charged with having assaulted Alfred Jas. Roberts at Epsom on June 25, and of causing actual bodily harm. i Evidence was heard at length, and his Honor, in summing up, safd that the whole question was one of identity. It was all very well to say that the cage for the Crown was abundantly clear, but boiled down it depended solely upon the evidence of Roberts. There had been many miscarriages of justice, and m this case the jury must be very careful to consider whether Roberts "had rightly identified his assailant. The jury, without retiring, immediately gave a verdict of not guilt}'. His Honor remarked that he entirely agreed I with the decision.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 85, 27 August 1912, Page 8
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172NOT GUILTY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 85, 27 August 1912, Page 8
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