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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22768, 21 July 1939, Page 19

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- - ♦ ' - ■ ■ BOURER REMANDED FOB SENTENCE IPS VERDICT ON OTHER CHARGES (PUSS 1880CIA710H TIUtOBAJ* AUCKLAND, July 20. i le trial of Willfarn Pera Paki, aged hj labourer, on a series of charges sing out of events at Okaihau on le 16 was completed before Mr Jus- « Fair and a jury in the Supreme ■ Jnrt The charges were of attemptI to murder his four-year-old son, Jniam George James Paki, doing him |Sial bodily harm, and recklessly wing a motor-car so as to injure ■; on the manslaughter of Mrs Anil Evelyn Marsh, and of recklessly nping so as to cause her death; and I Illy of attempting suicide. Accused I bitted the last charge; but pleaded I guilty to all the others. I vidence for the prosecution showed t shortly after noon on June 16, sr a quarrel with his wife, accused into a motor-car with his little boy, I drove furiously several times up W down the road through Okaihau. mt car accused was driving smashed ■b a small car in which were Mrs ■rsh and her little girl, and Mrs ■rsh suffered head injuries from pich she died. The Crown alleged it Paki, after stopping his car, atnpted to kill his little boy. He adwed that he later cut his own throat In a razor. After the evidence for e Crown was finished, Mr Meredith, e Crown Prosecutor, did not adess the jury. Answering the charge of attempted Wder, Mr Noble, for the accused, Id that many witnesses testified that to was very fond of his child. The iple thing arose from a dispute beeen him and his wife, and the probilities were that there was no inten,n to hi? mind to do the little boy y injury. No one would suggest at Paki drove into the other car deiprately, and counsel suggested that e lury should find him guilty of ighgent driving. Ms Honour invited the jury to con®rs*. toe charge' of manslaughter, pd said it was not necessary for the X* 0 P rov e deliberate intention. *2 satlsf y toe jury that Mrs ea to was due to an unlawful of the accused, namely, driving at a excessive speed dangerous to other se rs of toe highway. He had no smbt .that they would-Jind that the ndence established dangerous driv- [?■ and, a really gross breach of the ■w in this respect. If toey were satisfied, his Honour pd, that accused did some acts to his P recklessly, and knowing that they fere likely to cause his death, then he ps guilty of attempted murder. If ffy .tod not find him guilty of atwipted murder, or of doing the boy ttual bodily harm, it seemed that they almost bound to convict him on * torn! charge of recklessly driving •as to injure him. The jury found accused not guilty of te attempted murder of his son. but ailty of reckless driving so as to inhun. They found him guilty also ‘the manslaughter of Mrs Marsh, id of reckless driving so as to cause er death. Accused was remanded for sentence.