VERDICT OF GUILTY
MANSLAUGHTER CA3E
FATALITY IN THE SOUTH
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, October 20.
A verdict of guilty on the first count, with a strong recommendation to mercy, was returned by the jury today in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Kennedy in the case' in which Richard Corrigan, aged 51, was charged with manslaughter, and, alternatively, with assault causing actual bodily harm.
The charges arose out of the death of George Stuart Neish at Palmerston on August 26, and' the allegation of the Crown, was that he died as the result of a kick on the head inflicted by Corrigan following a quarrel at the accused's house, where drink..was consumed.
The case against the accused was conducted by the Crown Prosecutor, Mr. F. B. Adams, and Mr. J. G. Warrington appeared for the defence.
His Honour said he- would attach weight to the'jury's recommendation, and he remanded, the prisoner until Thursday for sentence. ?
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1936, Page 6
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