PLEA BY COUNSEL
Two Months’ Hard Labour For Meehan (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, February 6. "His present predicament is due to a misguided excess of patriotism,” said Mr. C. S. Thomas, his counsel, when William Meehan, acquitted by a jury yesterday on an attempted murder charge, but convicted of assault, appeared before Mr. Justice Kennedy today for sentence. Meehan was 43 years of age, and a married man with a family of five, counsel said. His previous record as a citizen was unblemished. He served two years in the Great War and at the outbreak of the present one had volunteered with the National Reserve for service either at home or overseas Meehan had been nearly four months in prison and counsel asked his Honour to take this fact into consideration.
The judge said that such an assault could not be too strongly condemned. In view of the time prisoner had already been in custody the sentence of the court would ’ be two months’ hard labour.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 114, 7 February 1941, Page 8
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