INDECENCY CHARGES
NEW TRIAL APPLIED FOR
The Court of Appeal today .continued the hearing of an application for an order under section 446 of the Crimes Act" directing a new trial in the ease of Walter Anderson Clifton, engineer, of Miramar, who was found guilty with a recommendation to leniency by the jury, in the Supreme Court, Wellington, on two counts of indecent assault on November 1, 1932. The jury disagreed on tho first trial.
Tho main ground of the application was that the verdict of the was against tho weight of evidence.
Mr. J. Meltzer concluded his address in support of the application; and Mr. E. O. E. Clarko also addressed the Court.
Mr. A. Fair, K.C., in opening the case for the Crown, submitted that the onus was on the accused to satisfy the i Court of Appeal that the verdict was such as no reasonable man could possibly have come to on the evidence. That, he said, was the rule laid down by the Court of Appeal. Tho hearing of argument is proceeding.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 9
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176INDECENCY CHARGES Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1933, Page 9
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