NOT UNPRECEDENTED
“NO "bill" in murder charge
CASE AT DUNEDIN IN 1901
Dunedin, August 20,
■The returning of no bill in a murder pharge by the grand jury at New Plymouth on Tuesday is not an unprecedented occurrence in the judicial history of New Zealand. When |he subject was mentioned to Mr. A.' C. Hanlon, K.C., he stated that a case occurred at Dunedin in 1901 in which two successive grand juries threw out a charge of murder against a seaman. After the first grand jury had returned no- bill accused was arrested again and re-indicted, but the second grand jury adopted a similar course, accused then being discharged.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1931, Page 5
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