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Counsel’s Protest To Coroner LIKELIHOOD OF STIGMA By Telegraph—Press Association. Dunedin, May 16. Declaring that his client would carry a stigma for the remainder of his life if the verdict prepared by the coroner were recorded, Mr. C. J. L. White, who successfully defended Hugh Urquhart Neil Gunn on a charge of murder last week, strongly protested against that verdict when the coroner, Mr. Dixon, sat this morning to complete the inquest on William Beatty. The coroner intimated that his proposed verdict was that death was the result of a severe blow to the skull received during an altercation with Gunn. Mr. White protested that even though Gunn bad been acquitted such a verdict would stigmatise him for life. He objected to limitation of the altercation to one person when at the trial other possibilities were put forward.
Tim coroner finally consented to use the words "altercation with Gunn and others.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 197, 18 May 1936, Page 10
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153VERDICT AMENDED Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 197, 18 May 1936, Page 10
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