SUPREME COURT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13712, 29 September 1908, Page 6

SUPREME COURT.

Per Press _As*oeiatiou. ;■ XEW PLYMOUTH, "Sept. 28./ James Mercer,- a man past middle age, charged with assault, on John Keogh at I'atea, wab found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm. the jiiry leconi mending him to lenitucy. Mis Honour saying that he was justified in considering that the atsault. ,\vat» committed iu hot blood afttr M* ivoi had b--en seriously ;t<~aulr«-d by Keogh. A ecu, el was bound over to ki |) 'he- p.-ace ior two VeaiiS. ;tud lillji a |* lii'uial SlliviV of £ jO. and: Iwo utbi'-r Mir ft i'-s in similar: aniotiiift. In lits a.ldi&s 10 the juiv. 11 L-> Honour said that the jury must, not be inthinu'-d hv the i-l ;> ih;H* K -..«1i i teivel no n><>rpunishment than h*- d»s,-ived. lor lite unwritten law of .Aiii-ium was iloi i;i force here. He would. lioweVfr, pay the greatest attention to »-wggretion fronj the jurv that -acciusedvliail -acted . uialer great '.provocation. , • HOKITIKA. Sept. 28. Mr Hannan for accused. Mr Herdman for tile prosecution, addiessed the jury in the West port perjury case at considerable length. Mr' Jll-t ice Cooper uill sum up to-morrow.