THE DRAKE CASE.
RESERVED FOR THE COURT OF APPEAL. At the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, before Mr Justice Ed wards. Mr Skerrett moved, on behalf of Harriet Drake, who was found guilty on Monday last of the manslaughter of her eight-year-old daughter, Dorothy Gwendoline Drake, at Otaki, on the 26th June last, to have the point raised by the defence during the course of the trial as to the admissibility of certain evidence reserved for the Court of Appeal.
His Honor: The point shall be reserved.
Mr Skerrett next applied to have Mrs Drake admitted to bail in tho meantime.
His Honor consented to allow hail. He fixed the amouet at the prisoner herself in £SOO and two sureties of £SOO each. He observed that so long as there was a point outstanding, ' so long should it be considered that the prisoner had not been properly convicted ; and it was obviously proper that the sentence should bo respited, and that the prisoner should not be sent to gaol, if it. should turn out that the Court of Appeal would decide that she ought not.
The case was accordingly allowed to stand until the next criminal sittings of_ the Court, on the 24th November. The Court of Appeal sits in the meantime on the 13th October. Mrs Drake, who had been accompanied to Court bv her husband, was then released on bail, the sureties being C. H. Izard and W. H. Broderick.
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New Zealand Mail, 27 August 1902, Page 20
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