MURDER CHARGE.
REHEARING OF CASE.
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT SYDNEY, Sept. 1.
The second trial of William Simpson on a charge of murdering Constable Flynn and Guy Clift, a car-driver, for which crime Simpson was previously sentenced to death, has begun, the evidence being similar to that given at the first trial.
The new trial was granted on the grounds of wrongful admission of evidence. Counsel for accused pointed out that there was no direct evidence of the firing of the fatal shots, and the reliance placed by the Crown on the statement of Clift, one of the victims of the shooting. Owing to a flaw in the proceedings ordinary dying depositions could not be made use of, and the Crown sought to take advantage of what was said by Clift in giving his dying depositions as ai statement made in the presence of accused. He contended that the law could not account such statements as actual evidence against the accused. The Chief Justice pronounced that it amounted to a.' miscarriage of justice and ordered a new trial.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 September 1924, Page 5
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