CHARGE DISMISSED
ACCUSED RECEIVES BENEFIT DOUBT. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, October 16. After having been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for the conversion of a motor car, along with his brother William who pleaded guilty and took all the blame, James Russell served one week in gaol before his case was re-heard by Mr Hunt, S.M. The Magistrate gave his reserved judgment to-day and said that James Russell’s conduct was strange but as there was a doubt prisoner was entitled to the benefit of it. The charge against him would be dismissed.
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Southland Times, Issue 20618, 17 October 1928, Page 10
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93CHARGE DISMISSED Southland Times, Issue 20618, 17 October 1928, Page 10
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