JURY RETURNS “NOT GUILTY” VERDICT ON JUDGE’S ADVICE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18008, 19 November 1926, Page 7

JURY RETURNS “NOT GUILTY” VERDICT ON JUDGE’S ADVICE.

Thomas Alick Ellis in the Supnme C ourt to-day, pleaded not B*l* “ having broken into the shops of ™ ham Trigging. Temux ’Association at Farmers’ Assoc I.eeston and leade( j no t guilty to goods. He al. o p e received the having, in ca f“ thc ,i had been disgoods knowing that tnc> honestly ob^'. ne .~ row „ Prosecutor, said Mr Donnelly, with a man that Elh,' 8 . shops, and the only ' Vho f h „ r " u-a' whethcr h P e was guilty of receiving. The case against him was not bv anv means a strong one His Honor said that an explanation • ' bv Ellis was a reasonable one, fnd he had refused to have anything to do with the goods. Mr Donnelly said that he did not think that the jury could be asked to C °His C lionor said that Ellis's statement showed that another man brought the * goods into his house. Ellis’s anxiety was to get rid of them, and they were sent to the railway station. The jury should not convict. Without retiring, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.