AUCKLAND RIOTS
MEN CHARGED With Unlawful Assembly (Per Press Association). AUCKLAND, May 3. In his charge to the. Grand Jury at the Supreme Court to-day, Mr Justice Smith referred to the fourteen persons charged with taking part in an unlawful assembly. “We are not concerned in this Court, with the underlying causes of the riot,” said His Honour. “The causes may be perfectly lawful, but what you have to consider is the assembly and its results.” After defining an unlawful assembly, His Honour said that all the Grand Jury were concerned with was the conduct of the rioters acting with a common purpose at some time during the assembly. To assemble unlawfully for any common purpose was sufficient. p.nd in the cases before the Court the purpose was common enough. There was evidence of a procession to the Town Hall, of its attitude, of someone crying, “Shall we fight?” and the answer “Yes.” There was ample evidence of the fear felt by the people in the neighbourhood. The jury would have no difficulty in finding a prima facie case.
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Grey River Argus, 4 May 1932, Page 5
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