UNFIT TO PLEAD
ON CHARGE OF MURDER. MAN COMMITTED TO MENTAL HOSPITAL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Held to be insane and unable to plead, Roland Leslie Kay, charged with the murder of his father, John Kay, at Christchurch, on March 20, was today committed to a mental hospital without standing his trial. A jury was empanelled to decide as to whether Kay was fit to plead, and Dr John Russell, Deputy Director of Mental Hospitals, said Kay could not follow the proceedings as intelligently as a man on trial should do. Without leaving the box the jury found Kay unfit to plead.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1938, Page 8
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104UNFIT TO PLEAD Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1938, Page 8
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