EPILEPTIC IIMBECILITY
MAN FOUND NOT GUILTY OF ASSAULT.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, November 6. Without leaving the box. a jury in the Supreme Court found John Griffenhoofe Abram not guilty on a charge of assault on the grounds that he was insane at the time. Mr Justice Smith ordered his detention in a mental hospital till the pleasure of the Minister of Justice is known. Abram was charged with assaulting Mrs D. S. M. Baker, his mother-in-law, on August 10 at New Plymouth, causing actual bodily harm. According to the prosecution, the assault occurred when Abram's wife, from whom he had agreed to separate, went to Abram’s house to collect clothing. She was handing clothing to her mother when Abram caught her and assaulted Mrs Baker with a hammer. For the defence medical evidence was called to show that since a head accident Abram had developed epileptic seizures, and that when the assault occurred he was suffering from epileptic imbecility.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 9
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161EPILEPTIC IIMBECILITY Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1939, Page 9
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