STIGMA FOR LIFE.
COUNSEL'S STRONG PROTEST. DUNEDIN MURDER INQUEST. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Declaring that his client would carry a stigma for the remainder of his life if the verdict prepared l>y the coroner were recorded, Mr. C. J. L. White, who successfully defended Hugh Urquhart Neil Gunn" on a charge of murder last week, strongly protested a α-ainst the verdict When the coroner, Mr. Dixon, sat this morning to complete the inquest on William Beatty. The 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 even though Gunn had been acquitted, such a verdict would stigmatise him for life. He objected to the limitation of the altercation to one 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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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 7
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