MAORI FOR TRIAL
ALLEGED ASSAULT ON
WIDOW
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
THAMES, This Day
ISakoi (Jimmy) Ake, agod 26, was Mmmittod for trial today on a charge of assault with intent to commit a serious offence on a widow, agod 77, on the evening of August 11. The hearing of evidence occupied all yesterday afternoon. A doctor and the police gave evidence that the accused was in a drunken stupor shortly after his arrest and declared that he did not remember anything of what happened. Counsel for the defence, Mr. C. J. Garland, applied for tho charge to bo reduced to one of common assault, but tho Magistrate, Mr. T. W. Platts, thought that the Court had no power to do so on such a serious charge.
The accused pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supremo Court at Auckland for trial, the Magistrate, reserving his decision regarding bail for a fortnight, during which Ake will be held in custody at Thames.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1934, Page 16
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162MAORI FOR TRIAL Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1934, Page 16
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