PERJURY CHARGE DISMISSED
AUCKLAND, 27th February. ' Mr. Justice Edwards, in summing-up in the charge of perjury \- against' Walter Edmund Harvey (who ' had sworn ha never carried a revolver at Waihi), said the defence admitted that the statements had been made, and that they were untrue, therefore the case resolved ' itself into an enquiry into the state of the man's mind when he , made the statements. The question before the jury was not one of law, but of fact. , The jury, after a .brief- retirement, found accused not guilty. The foreman explained that his- fellows considered that accused had made false statements when suffering from severe mental strain, without appreciating the importance of what he said, and that the Crown had failed to establish intent to mislead justice. / ', Prisoner was thereupon discharged. , i ■
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 5, 28 February 1913, Page 3
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132PERJURY CHARGE DISMISSED Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 5, 28 February 1913, Page 3
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