ASSAULT CHARGES
FIGHT AT A PARTY COURT PROCEEDINGS AT HAMILTON (United Press Association) HAMILTON, 19th August. A sequel to a party in which two young men arranged to fight was told in the Supreme Court at Hamilton when Alve Vernon McMinn and Cyril Dudding Henderson were charged with assaulting each other so as to cause bodily harm. There were alternative counts of common assault. Evidence was given that at Taumarunui on 29th April the two accused consumed a quantity of home brew. A dispute arose and a fight started. In the struggle McMinn believed that he had been struck in the back with a pen-knife, and according to the Crown he retaliated by hitting Henderson a number of times on the head with an electric torch. Henderson escaped and collapsed in a serious condition on the verandah of a doctor’s residence. McMinn was found not guilty on the major count but guilty of common assault under strong provocation, and the jury made a strong recommendation to mercy. He was admitted to probation for a year. Henderson was acquitted on both counts.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 20 August 1936, Page 4
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181ASSAULT CHARGES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 20 August 1936, Page 4
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