“UNSAFE TO CONVICT”
CROWN CASE FAILS.
By Telegraph. —Press Association. Christchurch, Nov. 11).
A case in which the Crown brought no evidence against an accused pei eon, "but proceeded against him solely on a statement he had made, to the police, ended the criminal session of the Supreme Court this morning. Thomas Aliek Ellis pleaded not guilty to three charges of breaking and entering shops at Temuka, Oxford and Leeston, and stealing goods from each, also to three charges of receiving goods knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. Mr. Justice Stringer said that he was bound to say that he would advise the jury that it was unsafe to convict on the evidence before it. The explanation that the man had given was reasonable. He seemed to have refused to" have anything to do with the stolen property, and although he was foolish to assist the other man in getting rid of the goods, he did not seem to do it with a view to aiding and abetting the thief, but with a view to getting incriminating goods off his premises. At his , Honour’s direction the jury returned a verdict of uot guilty.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1926, Page 11
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