A REPUDIATED CONFESSION
(BI TELEGRAPH.—TRESS ASSOCIATION ) NEW PLYMOUTH, 22nd May. The unusual postion' of an accused person repudiating in its entirety a signed confession made to the police cropped up in the Supreme Court to-day, when David George Stella (aged 20) Was found guilty of having assaulted a married woman on a country road near Kaponga, and was acquitted on a charge of indecent a-ssault. _ The principal witness for the Crown said that accused caught her by the 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 ho assaulted the woman. In the box in Court to-day accused denied making tho statement and repudiated tho signature to it. Sentence was postponed.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 13
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128A REPUDIATED CONFESSION Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 13
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