VERDICT DISALLOWED
APPEAL COURT ORDERS NEW TRIAL [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, April 13. The Appeal Court delivered its judgment to-day in the case of the King v. Alfred John Elmore, which was heard on March 22. The prisoner was charged on an indictment containing three counts, alleging in each count indecent assault on a girl. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty on the first two counts and one of guilty on the third, with a strong recommendation to mercy. Pursuant to the leave granted by Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court, Elmore moved before the Court of Appeal for a new trial on the ground that the jury’s verdict on the third count was against the weight of the evidence.
The Court of Appeal held that, after careful examination of the evidence, the verdict was, in all the circumstances of the case, extremely unsatisfactory, and that the jury could not, in its consideration of the case, have had that regard which the law requires to a higher of the assurance necessary in_ criminal cases. The verdict could not he allowed to stand, and an order was made for a new trial.
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Evening Star, Issue 22621, 13 April 1937, Page 12
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195VERDICT DISALLOWED Evening Star, Issue 22621, 13 April 1937, Page 12
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