SUPREME COURT
SENTENCE OF FIVE YEARS (By Telegraph—Press Association) DUNEDIN, This Day. Thomas Poison (48), found guilty in itlie Supreme Court of causing actual bodily harm to a young woman, was sentenced to live years’ imprisonment. Accused entered the woman’s bedroom and struck her with a hammer, causing a fractured skull. The jury at the trial added a rider that accused was suffering from the effects of drugs when the crime was committed. Later, in the Lower Court, Poison, ,who was removed to the hospital after itlie attack on the woman with his throat cut, was convicted and discharged on a charge of attempted suicide. NAPIER SESSIONS NAPIER, This Day. Three criminal cases—two for trial and one for sentence —as well as a fairlv long list of civil actions were setdown for hearing when the quarterly sessions of the Supreme Court opened at Napier this morning, Mr Justice Blahpresiding. True bills were returned in the case in which Donald Arnott -ml Margaret Bell were jointly charged with attempted indecent assault, and also in the case in which Desmond Kenny was charged with attempted indecent assault at Makotuku. In regard to the first case his Honour said it would no doubt seem unusual that there should be a charge of attempted indecent assault against'a woman. It was alleged, nowever, that, the woman was there to assist in the commission of a crime.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 February 1933, Page 2
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