SUPREME COURT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 2

SUPREME COURT

CASE AT WELLINGTON

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 3. An indication that tho defence was mainly concerned with the facts and not of the technical and legal character was given by Mr R. H. Boys, counsel for accused, in the case in which, charged with converting £650 to uses other than that directed by his client, Samuel Wilson, and thereby committing theft, a former Wellington lawyer, William Perry Hollings, appeared for trial in the Supreme Court. He said in answer to the Judge during the cross-ex-amination of Detective Campin, who made an investigation of Hollings’s books and records, that the defence would be that accused omitted one thing and one only, to register the first mortgage. Failure to do so had not been criminal. The money had # gone to the property purchase company. The Judge: Then the remedy would be a civil one? Mr Boys said that was the effect. He added that he might ask to have questions of law reserved. Thomas Lindsay Ward, an accountant, was called to substantiate the Crown’s allegations and gave lengthy evidence.

JURY DISAGREES

Per Press Association

WELLINGTON, Aug. 3.

After a retirement of four hours tonight, the jury disagreed and a new trial was ordered for next Thursday in the case in the Supreme Court in which William Perry Hollings, a former solicitor, is charged with diverting £650 to uses other than that directed by his client, Samuel Wilsan, thereby committing theft. The jury retired at 6.27 p.m. and reported its disagreement at 10.30 p.m.