THE O'SHAUGHNESSY CASE.
LEAVE TO APPEAL ASKED,
DEFENDING COUNSEL'S APPLICATION.
(Special Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 2,
After the verdict of manslaughter had been brought in by the jury against Martha Jane O'Shaughnessy, the defending counsel', Mr R. A. Singer, applied for leave to appeal, and Mr Justice Chapman said that he -would consider the application and give his decision later. The contention of Mr Singer is that the judge wrongly directed the jury in (1) saying they were entitled, if they found prisoner thought she was so skilled as to perform the operation alleged without death ensuring, to find her guilty of manslaughter, and not directing them, as requested by counsel for accused, that if the prisoner either knew or ought to have known that the operation was likely to cause death they would have to return a verdict of murder; (2) in directing the jury that even if they found the prisoner guilty of murder the sentence of death would not be carried out Counsel also submits that the judge was wrong in admitting in the evidence (1) depositions of prisoner given before the City Coroner, and (2) two letters found by one A. R. Millar (in the shop previously occupied by the prisoner's husband) long after the arrest of the prisoner, and Avhile she and her husband were in custody.
THE O'SHAUGHNESSY CASE.
Northern Advocate, 2 December 1911, Page 5
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