FOUND UNFIT TO PLEAD
Man Charged With Murder COMMITTAL TO MENTAL HOSPITAL By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, May 10. Held to be insane and unable to plead. Roland Leslie Kay, charged with the murder of his father, John Kay, at Christchurch on March 20, was to-day committed to a mental hospital without standing trial. A jury was' empanelled to decide whether Kay was fit to plead and Dr. John Russell, deputy-director of mental hospitals, said that Kay could Hot follow the proceedings as intelligently as a man on trial should do.
Without, leaving the box, the jury found that Kay was unfit to plead.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 191, 11 May 1938, Page 12
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103FOUND UNFIT TO PLEAD Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 191, 11 May 1938, Page 12
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