CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
(PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) NEW PLYMOUTH, November 17. "This position is as unusual as it is satisfactory, and as satisfactory as it is unusual," said the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers, in the Supreme Court to-day commenting on the fact that this was the first session in his experience as a Judge in which he had not been faced with a case, civil or criminal, arising out of a collision. It was the first time, he added, that he had had to hear the trial of a wonian on a charge of any kind., which possibly spoke well for the womanhood of the Dominion. In this case there were two charges against a Maori woman, Margaret Kerehoma, of murder and manslaughter. The Grand Jury found a true bill on the manslaughter charge only. A true bill v-as found tn the charge of manslaughter against Abraham Wally Mahomed Salaman, an Indian herbalist, in connexion with the death of a boy named Christie.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20088, 18 November 1930, Page 15
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