BREEZE IN COURT.
CROWN PROSECUTOR ATTACKED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Mr. O. C. Mazengarb, counsel for Dominic O'Connor, charged at Supreme Court with indecent exposure, in an address to the jury, spoke very strongly in connection with certain features of the case for the Crown. He accused the Crown of endeavouring to prejudice and poison the minds of the jury. The Crown Prosecutor disposed of the matter by remarking that where a case was weak one expected the weak side to blacken the other. Mr. Justice Chapman said, "I have sat on the Bench for twenty years, and I have never heard a case in which such imputations were made against the case of the Crown." His Honor added the* he had listened to the evidence , of the police, and they appeared to have acted with scrupulous fairness. Their case was conducted . with fairness and with a view to sheeting home the crime to the proper person. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. A jury had already disagreed at the first hearing.
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Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 112, 13 May 1924, Page 3
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