A DESPERATE STRUGGLE
KNIFE USED IN FIGHT ONE MAN BADLY BATTERED (Per United Phess Association) HAMILTON, August 19. The sequel to a party, in which two young men arranged to fight, and one was wounded with a knife and the other critically injured, was told in the Supreme Court at Hamilton, when Alva Vernon M'Minn and Cyril Dudding Henderson were charged with assaulting each other, causing bodily harm. There were alternative counts of common assault. Evidence was given that at Taumarunui, on April 29, the pair consumed a quantity of home brew. Disputes arose and a fight started. In the struggle M'Minn believed he had been struck in the back with a penknife, and according to the Crown, he retailated by hitting Henderson a number of times on the head with an electric torch. Henderson escaped and collapsed in a serious condition on the veranda of a doctor's residence. M'Minn 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22964, 20 August 1936, Page 13
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