COURT OF APPEAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 15433, 20 April 1912, Page 12

COURT OF APPEAL

(Pen United Press Association.) WEI.LINCTON, Apiil 19, In the Court of Appeal to-dny, before Justices Stout. Williams, Edwards, Cwper, and Chapman, argument was heard in the Crown cases (reserved) of the Kin;; v. O'Shaiighiiessy, and the King v. Jlossell and Campbell. The ciaes aiose out of the death of Elsie Alexandra Holland on June 13 of last year at Auckland. It will be reniembercd that tlio trial p*>k place in November last, and that .V.«S O'Slianghwssy was convicted of nvm&iiuighier, and the other two prisoners of oimpiriiig lo oltstniet. prevent, pervert, anil defeat fllb raiirtj of justice. Mrs O'Slwughnessy was sentenced to bsvcii years' imprisonitiont, with hard lalmiir/and the other iimwiers to 12 months imprisonment, with Inrd laU.ur. The questions reserved bv Mr . Justice Chapman (the judge presiding at the trial m bath caws) are as to the admissibility 0 f certain evidence tendiV lo show tbt i|» O'Slßiighmwv'B hotiso was known as a place wliero illemil operations iiii 2 |,t k> performed, and ;ls to the admissibility of the, depositions of tlio |>riamera taken before the coroner. Mr Singer appears for all the prisoners, and the Schcitcr-general for tlio Crown.

Argument was not concluded when Uio court rose.