SUPREME COURT AT DUNEDIN

Taranaki Daily News, 3 May 1933, Page 5

SUPREME COURT AT DUNEDIN

DIRECTIONS TO THE GRAND JURY. TWO CASES INVOLVING INJURIES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christchurch, May 2. In his address at the opening of the Supreme Court criminal sessions, Mr. Justice MacGregor said that in the cases involving injury the facts were unusual, but they seemed fairly clear. The first was against Mrs. Long, who was charged with firing a revolver at a man. From the evidence it was clear that the woman had not only intended to cause actual bodily harm but. succeeded in doing so. The facts should present little difficulty. There were alternative charges against the accused Clarence George Gibson of manslaughter or assaulting a man named Bank. The facts were very unusual and very unfortunate.’ Two men had had an argument when together in a gang on relief work. They had had. a quarrel, and apparently Gibson had struck the other man and he fell to the ground over a steep bank, dying shortly afte-'-wards. According to a pathologist’s report death was not caused directly by the actual blow or even by the fall. It seemed that death was due to the man having in some way twisted his neck so as to cause a diffusion of blood into the brain.