SUPREME COURT Guilty plea to assault
John Thomas Reynolds, aged 33, a storeman, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court vesterday to a charge of assaulting Taugauli Tuia on May 23. Mr Justice Macarthur remanded Reynolds on bail to August 16 for sentence. Reynolds was arraigned on alternative charges of injuring Mr Tuia with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and of common assault. The Crown accepted the plea of guilty on the assault charge.
Mr R. A Young appeared for the Crown and Mr A. P. C. Tipping for Reynolds. The charge arose from a fight in an Addington railway workshops car park after a dispute during a game of poker. Mr Tuia died, and a pathologist gave evidence in the Magistrate’s Court that the cause of death was myocarditis aggravated by a fight.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33611, 13 August 1974, Page 15
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