CHARGE SUCCEEDS
DOMESTIC ON TRIAL REMANDED FOR SENTENCE A charge of illegally using an instrument on a young woman was preferred against Adeline Pyle, domestic, aged 55 (Mr. Noble), before Mr. Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court yesterday. Accused pleaded not guilty. Mr. G. S. R. Meredith, who prosecuted, said the offence was alleged to have occurred in accused's house. The girl subsequently beccme ill and was admitted to the Auckland Hospital. The police were later informed and interviewed accused, who denied knowledge of tho girl and of a companion who bad accompanied her. Accused had said that neither of the girls had been in her house, but the description of the interior given by the girls agreed with what tho police saw when they visited the house.
In his address, Mr. Noble submitted that there was no evidence on which to convict tho accused except the uncorroborated evidence of accomplices. To convict on such evidence would be unsafe because the accomplices might have motives for evasion. After a short retirement, , the jury brought in a verdict of guilty. Prisoner was remanded for sentence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23405, 22 July 1939, Page 19
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184CHARGE SUCCEEDS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23405, 22 July 1939, Page 19
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