MURDER TRIAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13908, 8 November 1919, Page 4

MURDER TRIAL.

Prcn PIIF.SH Association. WELLINGTON, November 7. Addressing the jurv in (lie ease o .lames Reside, Mr Will'ord pointed ti the importance of the medical evidem-i' and asked if accused was so nuieli li blame. or was lie not really to lie pitioil las his mental e:ip:ieitv was below nor mill. The regret- w-'<s that hi< nn'iil.i trouble was not- discovered earlier, imii action taken to pluee him in a nienl:i hospital. His Honor, mini tiling up. put I" tin jury, two questions; -First : Whs nr. cus'ed. .Tnmes Reside, insane :it tin time he committed the oll'encc will winch he was charged't Second: hi .yon acquit- him on the ground nl insanity? There was-no dispute »tt in facts* ill the ease, his Honor said. .W----cussed admitted he had Killed C:in and at no time made any 'erivl n it. and were it- not I'or I lie question n insanity raised, he would simply miv i, 'them that- a prima facie case of munle had heen established. Ihil tliev hit free of that, for they had a ili'-lim defence of insanity set up.

Without retiring, the jury miimv ihe two questions submitted tliem the affirmative. His Honor ordered that the pre he kept ill custody, in I lie public |n 111 Wellington. Ulltil tile plea'-iliv nl Minister of Justice was known.