MAREO'S RETRIAL PLEA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18974, 26 March 1936, Page 12

MAREO'S RETRIAL PLEA

*» ANSWER FOR CROWN EVIDENCE FOB JURY COUNSEL ENDS ADDRESS (For Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. Before the Court of Appeal tins i afternoon, Mr. A. H". Johnstone, K.C, [ concluded his address, on behalf of ! the Crown, in reply to the application ! mado on behalf of Brie Mareo for a I retrial of the charge., <>n which Mareo I was*found guilty and sentenced to ! death on February 2(>, of having murI dcred his wife, Thelnm Clarice Mareo. In the concluding stages of his adI dress this afternoon, Mr. JoTinstorie | continued to review the evidence, and { staled that the milk given to Mrs. \ Mareo was prepared in the kitchen . by the prisoner and brought into tho room by him. lie was taking veronal at the time. Mareo had the means and opportunity to add veronal to > the milk, and counsel submitted that as the physical results on Mrs. Mareo became manifest, after she had taken the milk tho jury was justified in taking the V.ie.W that'it was adminis-

tered in that way by Mareo. The Crown submission was that there was evidence from which it could properly Hie inferred that veronal was contained in the milk given to Mrs. Mareo at the request of Mareo on the Saturday nighi, and the jury was entitled" to infer that Mareo gave all doses, whenever given, necessary to produce her death. At the conclusion of Mr. Johnstone's address, Mr. V. N. Huddle addressed the court on the conduct of the accused, with particular reference, to the week-end. The court then adjourned until tomorrow..