WOMAN ACQUITTED
CHARGE OF MURDERING HUSBAND. PUBLIC IN COURT APPLAUD VERDICT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury in the case of Jean Laurentine, aged 31, whose trial on a charge of murdering her husband Francis Norman Laurentine. waterside worker aged 36. in Wellington, on November 2 last, was concluded in the Supreme Court in Wellington, yesterday afternoon. A burst of applause from the public gallery when the foreman ot the jury announced the verdict was promptly suppressed by court officials.
The defence was that Mrs Laurentine had been provoked by her husband. who had twice knocked her down, that she had picked up a knife in self-defence and that the death of her husband was an accident brought about by her act of selfprotection. The trial, which began on Wednesday morning', concluded at 3.4(1 o'clock' yesterday afternoon, the jury being m retirement for 65 minutes
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 7
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155WOMAN ACQUITTED Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 February 1941, Page 7
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