SYMES SENTENCED.
TWO YEARS’ PROBATION Electric Telegraph—Press Association PALMERSTON N., This Day. In the Supreme Court Manley* Syrnes, labourer, for assaulting his wife so as tc cause actual bodily harm was sentenced to probation for two years and ordered to pay costs of prosecution. Judge Smith referred to the jury's rider that the prisoner acted under extreme (provocation also that the shooting of his wife was accidental. The Judge added that the other man in the case, Sylvester Campbell, was not on trial but His Honour felt justified in saying that Campbell played a very ignoble part and gave the prisoner very extreme provocation. However a man could not take the law into his own hands. The Judge said he had the jury’s rider in view in granting probation.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13089, 24 October 1935, Page 6
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129SYMES SENTENCED. Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13089, 24 October 1935, Page 6
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