A FAIR TRIAL

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 316, 21 August 1924, Page 5

A FAIR TRIAL

"A WASTE OF Till-: OOOPT'S TIME."

vßy Electric Cable—Copyright). lAuat. and IN.Z Cable 4*»(w.iatiou) London, Aug. 10. The grounds of Patrick Mahon's Appeal against his sentence for the murder of Miss Kaye, included misdirection of the, jury in that tire Judge should, have pointed out the possibility of accident on the lines of accused'. <• version of .Miss Kayo's death; that the .Judge gravely prejudiced the trial by declaring that Miss Kaye was aware of her condition of health; and that the Judge wrongly told tho jury that Maiion admitted she died hy m» hands. The Chief Justice intimateu that he did not desire to hear the Crown's reply, whereupon Mahon, for the first time, revealed extreme, despair and sobbed convulsively The Chief Justice, went on: "There was no substanoa in any of the defences ft is quite clearly a most cruel, repulsive, and cayefidly-pianniet murder, and the trial has been perfectly fair. Only the- fact thai, it is a capital case prevents my saying that the, appeal is both frivolous and a waste of the Court's time."