WORDING OF VERDICT.
POSSIBILITY OF STIGMA. MURDER CASE SEQUEL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDN, Saturday. Declaring that his client would carry tho stigma for the remainder of his life if ihe verdict prepared by the coroner were recorded, Mr C. S. L. White, who successfully defended Hugh Urquhart Neil Gunn on a charge of murder last week, strongly protested against that verdict when the coroner, Mr Dixon, sat this morning to complete tho inquest on William Beatty. Tho coroner Intimated that his proposed verdict was that death was the result of a severe blow to the skull received during an altercation with Gunn. Mr White protested that oven though Gunn had been acquitted such a verdict would stigmatise him for life, lie objected to the limitation of the altercation to on** person when at the trial other possibilities were put forward. The. coroner finally consented to use the words “altercation with Gunn and others.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 7
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153WORDING OF VERDICT. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19887, 16 May 1936, Page 7
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