VERDICT OF GUILTY
PERSONATION CHARGE
GENERAL ELECTION CASE
(By Telegraph—Press Association")
AUCKLAND, May 6.
A verdict of guilty with a recommendation that leniency should be extended was returned by a. jury in the Supreme Court today after considering the case of James Francis Brady, second-hand dealer, who was alleged to have committed the offence of personation under the Electoral Act, 1927, on the day of the General Election last year. It was alleged by the Crown that the accused voted in the morning at St. Benedict's Hall and then went to a booth at the Town Hall and applied for a second set of voting papers. The case came before Mr. Justice Callan.
For the accused Mr. Elwarth said Brady was so much under the influence of liquor that he did not realise what he was doing when he applied for voting papers. Although it had been shown that the accused had voted at St. Benedict's Hall on the morning of election day he had no recollection of having done so. He was "n such a helpless state of intoxication on that day that he did not recollect either voting or being in the vicinity of the Town Hall during the afternoon.
The accused was remanded for sentence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 7
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