AUCKLAND RIOTERS
FOURTEEN BEFORE SUPREME COURT
HIS HONOUR'S CHARGE TO GRAND JURY [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 3. In his charge tp the Grand Jury at the . Supreme Court to-day Mr Justice Smith referred to the fourteen persons charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly. “We are not concerned in this court with ' the underlying causes of the riot,” said His Honour. “ The causes may be perfectly lawful, but what you have to consider is an assembly and its results.” After defining an unlawful assembly His Honour said that all the Grand Jury was concerned with was the conduct of the rioters acting with a common purpose at the same time during an assembly. To assemble unlawfully for any common purpose was sufficient, and in the cases before the court the purpose was common enough. There 'was evidence of a procession to the Town Hall and of its attitude of someone crying “ Shall we fight? ” and the answer “ Yes.” There was ample evidence of the fear felt by people in the neighbourhood. The jury would have no difficulty in finding a prima facie case.
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Evening Star, Issue 21092, 3 May 1932, Page 6
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186AUCKLAND RIOTERS Evening Star, Issue 21092, 3 May 1932, Page 6
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