NEW TRIAL SOUGHT.
AIXEGED INDECENT ASSAULT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. The Appeal Court to-day heard an application for a new trial on the Hamilton case in which Alfred John Elmore was found guilty on the third of three charges of indecent assault on a girl under ten years. The grounds of the appeal were:—(l) The verdict of the jury was against the weight of evidence; (2) the Supreme Court had granted leave to apply to the Court of Appeal for a new trial; (3) it was in the interests of justice that a new trial should be granted. Counsel submitted in support of the motion that the whole of the casofor the prosecution on the third count rested on a hypothesis built on a set of assumptions which were purely circumstantial. The evidence showed beyond doubt that there were explanations for those assumptions other than Elmore's guilt. Decision was reserved.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 69, 23 March 1937, Page 10
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