CROWN CASE ENDED
opening: of the defence
AUCKLAND, This Day.
The case for the prosecution in the charge against Arthur Thomas Munn, of murdering his wife, was completed to-day, and the defence was opened.
The case for the prosecution ended with the evidence of analysts concerning the pills found in the dead woman's bedroom on the day the accused was arrested. The analysts.said'the pills contained nux vomica. It would take twenty of the pills to give half a grain of strychnine, and the twenty pills would have to be taken at one time to constitute a fatal dose.
Mr. Northeroft, counsel for the defence, opened his address at 11.20 a.m. He began by outlining the history of the accused. He asserted that the medical evidence of the Crown was in conflict and negatived the assertion by the Crown that the woman received doses of strychnine during the whole week before her death.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 117, 20 May 1930, Page 10
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