CONSTABLE ACQUITTED
CHARGE OF ASSAULT. (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 12. At the Supreme Court a charge against the watehhouse keeper at the City Police Station, Constable Fielding Hargreaves, of having assaulted and caused bodily harm to an arrerted man, was heard. The defence was that the injury, a broken jaw, was not sustained at the station, and that accused touched complainant on the head, but the action could not be described as a blow. The Judge emphasised the importance of the case, which was one on which a verdict should not be found against the accused except on the most convincing evidence. The witnesses on each side testified to different sets of facte. It had also to be remembered that he man had been arrested for drunkenness and no doubt would be somewhat hazy in his mind as to what had taken place. The jury, after a short retirement, found a verdict of not guilty.
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Southland Times, Issue 19515, 15 May 1922, Page 2
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157CONSTABLE ACQUITTED Southland Times, Issue 19515, 15 May 1922, Page 2
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