FIGHT OR ASSAULT?

Grey River Argus, 15 May 1935, Page 5

FIGHT OR ASSAULT?

Husband’s Attack ON MAN WITH HIS WIFE. (Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, May 14. A charge is being heard at the Supreme Court in which Thomas Carroll Russell Hunter, aged 50, butcher, is arraigned with assaulting James King, so as to cause actual bodily harm. King was brought to the Court from 'the Hospital in an ambulance. The Crown Prosecutor said that the accused was a married man, but he and his wife had separated some little time before the alleged assault took place. After 'they separated, she took King in to help her in the making of pies in her boarding house in Ghuznee Street. On the morning of the alleged assault, the accused went to a house in Ghuznee Street in which King lived. Hunter found that his wife was in King’s room. He ypoke to them, and the wife told him not to make a row about it. He took up a bottle of beer, and attacked King, who was severely injured No evidence was given for tho defence.

Hunter’s counsel, in addressing the jury, urged itJhat the jury must be clearly satisfied that King had proved beyond a doubt that his injuries had been due to assault, and not to a fight or a scuffle. HUNTER ACQUITTED. WELLINGTON, May 14. A verdict of not guilty was returned by the jury in the Supreme Court in the case in which Thomas Carroll Russell Hunter was charged with assaulting James King so as to cause actual bodilv harm.