UNFIT TO PLEAD
PARRICIDE CDMMITED TO MENTAL! HOSPITAL EjiO OF KAYE CASE [Psb United Press Asshutiov.] CHRISTCHURCH, May 10. Held to be insane and unable to plead, Roland Leslie Kay,' charged with the murder of his father, John Kay, ah ‘ Christchurch on March 20, was to-day* committed to a mental hospital without standing trial. A jury was empanelled to decide as to whether Kay was fit to plead, and Dr John Russell, Deputy-director of Men* tal Hospitals, said Kay could not follow the proceedings as intelligently as \ a man on trial should do. Without leaving the btJ* the jury found Kay unfit to plead. [Shortly after 10.15 on Sunday, March 20, an elderly man, John Kay, was found lying in a pool'of blood outside the back door or his home at 14 Willard street; Spreydon. No gun was found alongside the body, but the police recovered a shotgun from the section. The son, aged 46 years, was latex arrested.]
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Evening Star, Issue 22953, 10 May 1938, Page 8
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159UNFIT TO PLEAD Evening Star, Issue 22953, 10 May 1938, Page 8
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