BACON AND BEER
A VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY
The disappearance of a bottle of beer and a side and two half-rolls of bacon from a butcher's shop in Cuba street during a week-end in February last, had a sequel in the Supreme Court today when Florence Michael O'Donoghue and William Michael Heenan, two middlc-ag'ed men, were charged with breaking and entering the shop of John Hey worth and stealing the bacon and beer. An alternative charge of the theft of the meat was made against them.
The case for tho Crown was that O 'Donoghue,- in a statement to the police, admitted going to the shop, and that at the boarding-house where Heenan lived, some of the bacon was re-" covered.
It was pointed out. by Mr. J. F. B. Stevenson, in his address to tho jury, that there had been many beer transactions between O'Donoghue and Heyworth during the last four years. Counsel raised the question of the intention of theft on O'Donoghue's part. Mr. Mazengarb suggested that tho bacon had been left at the boardinghouse by a third party, and that Heenan had not been implicated in the theft. ■■
After a short retirement, the jury found Heenan not guilty and O'Donoghue guilty of breaking and entering while under the influence of liquor, but without intention to steal.
His Honour interpreted the verdict as one of not guilty against botli prisoners, who were discharged.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 115, 18 May 1927, Page 12
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235BACON AND BEER Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 115, 18 May 1927, Page 12
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