CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 111, 10 April 1929, Page 8

CHARGE OF ASSAULT.

VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY. Per Press Association. MASTEItTON, April 10. The case against Owen Llewellyn Udy, 18 years of age, who was charged with assaulting his father, Albert John Udy, was continued at tho Supreme Court to-day. „ . , , Accused said that he had just finished killing sheep and had brought the fat to the safe when he had an argument with his mother over the old fat left in the safe. “The old man came out of the house and gave me a smack on the jaw; I just stepped back,” said accused. His father made another smack at him; he put up his left hand to ward off his father, who fell. His father tried to get up, but he pushed him down again. Accused stated that he told Detective Jarrold two or three times that it was an accident, but the detective would not take this part of the statement down, and said it was not an accident, that he was scared of the “old man” and let him havo it. Accused described as ftntrue that he stabbed his father as made in accused’s statement to the detective, which he only looked through as he was nearly asleep at tho time. The jury retired at 12.30 to consider its verdict and returned at one o’clock with a verdict of not guilty.