COUNTERFEIT COINS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 9 May 1931, Page 5

COUNTERFEIT COINS

CHARGE OF UTTERING FAILS TRIAL IX SUPREME <’<HflT At CURED DISCI f AIK JED (Per Press Association). Auekland. Ma.x 8. In the Supreme Court to-day .lames Fleming, 27. a labourer, was acquitted on a charge of tillering a connterfeit; coin. The ease was hear! before Mr. Justice Smith and a jury. Mr. Hubble 1 prosecuted on behalf of the Crown, and Mr. Anderson defended accused. After evidence had been submitted, M . Anderson said there seemed no doubt hat the counterfeit coin was tendered, Imt the question was whether the accused knew the coin was counterfeit. The whole of the at* c,red's actions won* hones/ and the <Toxxifs ease was one of the- weakest ever placed before a ury. The jury. after one and a half hours’ deliberation, relume 1 a verdict of not gifllly. and prisoner was discharged.