CONFESSION REPUDIATED
SUPREME COURT INCIDENT. By Telegraph—Press Association New Plymouth, May 22. Tho unusual position of ar. accused person repudiating in its entirety a signed confession made to the police cropped up in the Supremo Court: to-day, when David George Stella (aged 20) was found guilty of having assaulted a married woman on a country road near Kaponga, ami was acquitted on a charge of indecent assault. Tho principal witness for the Crown said that accused caught her hr tlie throat, and there was a struggle till someone came on the scene, when accused ran away. At the police station accused made a statement admitting that he assaulted the woman. In the box in Court to-day accused denied making the statement and repudiated the signature to it. Sentence was postponed.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 199, 23 May 1925, Page 7
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