SUPREME COURT
A WANGANUI RE-HEARING. (Per United Press Association.) WANGANUI, February 19. The re-hearing of the trial of William Owen for assault on a man maned Butler, whom he found with his wife, was taken to-day and the jury returned a verdict of guilty. In sentencing the prisoner Mr Justice Reed said that he would take the case as one of common assault. The prisoner had been rightly convicted. Any Jury that failed to convict on the evidence given would be committing a breach of the oath. He would take into consideration the jury’s recommendation of mercy, but at the same time he wanted to point out that no man could take the law into his own hands, and it would therefore be necessary to inflict some punishment upon him. It would be light, almost too light, and' he added that Owen would have to pay the costs of the prosecution, for he had no valid defence. His Honour imposed a fine of £5, and ordered him to pay the cost of the two prosecutions, amounting to £l7 15/6. Six months was given Owen in which to pay the amounts.
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Southland Times, Issue 19771, 20 February 1923, Page 6
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190SUPREME COURT Southland Times, Issue 19771, 20 February 1923, Page 6
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