ASSAULT CHARGE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20108, 15 May 1935, Page 10

ASSAULT CHARGE

ACCUSED ACQUITTED By TelesraDh —Pres? Association WELLINGTON, May 14. In the Supreme Court to-day, Thomas Carroll Russell Hunter, aged 50, a butcher, was charged with ass.vilting James King so as to cause actual bodily harm. King was brought to the Court from the hospital in an ambulance. The Crown prosecution said that the accused was a married man, but he and his wife had separated some little time before the alleged assault took place. After they separated she took King in to help her in the making of pies in her boarding house in Ghuznee Street. On the morning of the alleged assault accused went to the house in Ghuznee Street in which King lived and found his wife in King’s room. He spoke to them and she told him not to make a row about it. He took up a bottle of beer and attacked King, who was severely injured. No evidence was given for the defence. Counsel urged that the jury must be clearly satisfied that King had proved beyond doubt that his injuries had been due to the assault and not to a fight or a scuffle. verdict of not guilty was returned and prisoner was discharged.