JUDGE’S SUMMING UP HAS BEEN DELIVERED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 185, 6 August 1931, Page 9

JUDGE’S SUMMING UP HAS BEEN DELIVERED.

END OF MURDER TRIAL IS APPROACHING NOW. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. August 6. The trial of George Rameka on a charge of murdering Mrs Gwendolm, Johnson, on June 24, is approaching the end. This morning. Mr VV. Noble, for prisoner, and Mr V. R. Meredith, Crown Prosecutor, addressed the jury and his Honor Mr Justice Smith began his summing up. He told the jury that no distinction was to be drawn between Maoris and Europeans regarding the standard of conduct required when an insult was offered that was sufficient to deprive a person of self, control. As far as punishment was concerned that was a matter in which racial considerations might be taken into account. The Judge said that a vital part of the case was whether accused or deceased’s daughter, who was the only eye-witness, was telling the truth about what happened in the bedroom. Vas the taunt ever made to provofc* accused? Had he taken anv poison before he entered the room or did he take the bottle out of his pocket after he went in? Did he take the knife from his pocket inside the room* The summing up ended at 1.20 pm.