THE POMAHAKA MANSLAUGHTER CASE.
(PRE3S ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)
DUNEDIN, September 5. Mr Solomon asked for a mitigation of the sentence, on the ground that the verdict of the jury expressly excluded the notion that the woman was put into the river except for the purpose of concealment after the result of the blow struck during an unpremeditated quajrrel. He also asked the Court to draw an analogy between the present case and Mullaney's, in which four months' imprisonment was given for an assault committed with a more serious weapon, also in a quarrel, and which did end in death. The Judge said there was not the slightest analogy between the two cases. Matson's manslaughter was a kind of manslaughter very nearly approaching murder, and it would be quite out of the question to inflict anything but a severe punishment. The sentence would be twelve years' imprisonment with hard labour.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9515, 7 September 1896, Page 6
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THE POMAHAKA MANSLAUGHTER CASE.
Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9515, 7 September 1896, Page 6
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