MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
Accused In Blenheim Trial Acquitted (New Zealand Press Association) BLENHEIM, December 8. A jury in the Supreme Court at Blenheim today returned a verdict of not guilty in the case in which George Ernest Marshall, aged 43, a company manager, was charged with manslaughter. After a hearing lasting two days and a half, the jury took two hours, including the break for lunch, to reach its verdict. Mr Justice Richmond discharged Marshall. Marshall was charged that, having under his charge or under his control an appliance which, in the absence of precaution or care, might endanger human life, he omitted to take reasonable precautions. and that, as a result of such an omission, caused the death of Kenneth Lestrange Haines. Haines, aged 47, married, was killed when he was struck by a bolt fired by Marshall from a high-powered riveting gun during the fastening of sheets of corrugated iron to steel girders in a building under construction for the firm of which Marshall was branch manager.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29383, 9 December 1960, Page 28
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