MAREO CASE.
CHARGE OF MURDER. FIXING DATE FOR TRIAL POSTPONEMENT SOUGHT. An application that the trial of Eric Marco, musician, aged 44, on a cliargcof murdering his wife, Tlielma Clarice Mareo, be postponed from the criminal sessions which arc to open next week to the February sessions will be heard by Mr. Justice Fair 011 Friday morning. The application was to have been heard this morning, but Mr. Justice Fair if at present in Wellington and will leave for Auckland on Thursday. On Thursday last, Mr. K. Aekins, counsel for Mareo, filed a motion requesting a postponement of the trial, and based the application 011 the grounds that in view of the lengthy and involved nature of the evidence, and particularly in view of the medical questions arising from it, counsel will not be able adequately to prepare for a trial at the coming sessions; that Mareo is embarrassed in the preparation of his defence through lack of finance; and that it is in the interests of justice that the adjournment sought should be granted. Mareo was committed for trial on October 3 by Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., after a hearing which extended just over three and a half days.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 244, 15 October 1935, Page 9
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