A HUMAN TARGET.
TilE CIRCUS EXPERT GUILTY. Wellington, Last Night. In the case Rex v. McLeod, the ease where a shooting expert injured a member of an audience in attempting to shoot the ash off a cigarette held in the mouth of the injured person, the Court of Appeal held that -prisoner was guilty of all the offences with which he was charged, namely, of common assault, of assault with actual bodily harm, and of causing actual bodily harm. In such circumstances that if death had been caused thereby the prisoner would have been guilty of manslaughter.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 266, 20 April 1915, Page 5
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97A HUMAN TARGET. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 266, 20 April 1915, Page 5
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