ASSAULT CASE
ACCUSED FOUND INSANE,
[per pbesb association.]
NEW PLYMOUTH, November 6
Without leaving the box, a jury in the Supreme Court found John Griffenhoofe Abram not guilty of a charge of assault on the ground that he was insane at the time. Mr. Justice Smith ordered his detention in a mental hospital until the pleasure of the Minister for Justice is known. Abram was charged with assaulting Mrs. D. S. M. Baker, his mother-in-law, on August 10, at New Plymouth, causing actual bodily harm. According to the prosecution, the assault occurred when Abram's wife, from whom be had agreed to seperate, went to Abram’s house to collect her clothing. She was handing clothing to her mother when Abram caught her, and assaulted Mrs. Baker with a hammer. For the defence 1 , medical evidence was called to show that since a head accident Abram had developed epileptic seizures, and that when the' assault occurred, he was suffering from epileptic imbecility. ___
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1939, Page 9
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