KNIFE USED IN FIGHT
DRINKING PARTY BRAWL ALLEGATIONS T\' COUfi-T (Per Press Association.) HAMILTON, (his day. A sequel to a party in which two vcmng men arranged to fight, and one was knifed and the other critically injured, was toid in the Supreme Court at Hamilton when Alve Vernon McMinn and Cyril Dnddiug Henderson were Charged with assaulting each other and causing bodily harm. There were alternative counts" of common assault. Evidence was given that at Taumarunni. on April 29, the pair consumed, a quantity of home brew. Disputes arose and a. fight started. In the struggle McMinn believed he had Leon shuck in the back with a pen-knife, according to the Crown. Jie retaliated l\v hitting Henderson a number of times on (lie head with an electric torch.
Henderson escaped and collapsed in a serious condition on the verandah oi a doctor's residence.
McMinn was found not guilty on the major count, but guilty, of common assault under strong provocation, and the turv made a stvong recommendation to mercy. McMinn was admitted to probation for a year. Henderson was acquitted on both counts. '
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19097, 19 August 1936, Page 2
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