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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 38, 13 August 1930, Page 12

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ANOTHER MAN'S SHEEP

CRIMINAL CHARGES

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)

NAPIEK, 12th August.

A plea of not guilty was entered at the Supreme Court to-day in a case in which Edwin Charles Allison was charged with the. theft of 21 sheep valued at £18 10s, the property of Edward Henry Thompson; and alternatively with receiving sheep knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained.

The Crown's evidence went to show that 19 of the sheep were found in a woolshed on the accused's property bearing Thompson's earmark, but the brand o{ the accused's brother, who was joint administrator with the accused in the estate. The skins of two sheep were found bearing the earmark of Thompson.

The defence was that the accused knew little about farming, having been engaged only since October last with his brother Reuben, who had been on the place all his life. Reuben, who pleaded guilty to the same charge in the lower Court, did all the managing of the property, and the accused was not aware that sheep belonging to Thompson were on the property. After a' retirement of two hours the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Other charges of a similar nature against Allison and his brother Reuben will be heard to-morrow.