NURSE ACQUITTED
CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED
MURDER
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.*
AUCKLAND, This Day. In his charge to the Grand Jury at the opening of the criminal sessions, Mr Justice Herdman said that there was nothing m the list to indicate any wave of crime. The number of cases for trial was less than usual. In the charge against a younjr probationary nurse in the Auckland Province who gave birth to a child which was found in a looker with a portion of a singlet round its neck there was no evidence that an attempt had been made to strangle the child. The girl was overwrought and possibly her mental condition might have been affected. In the circumstances he took the responsibility of suggesting that the jury would be justified in finding that there was not sufficient evidence to prove a prima facie case of attempted murder had been made out. The Grand Jury found no bill, and the nurse was discharged.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 22, 26 July 1927, Page 10
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160NURSE ACQUITTED Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 22, 26 July 1927, Page 10
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