"NEVER PREMEDITATED.”
JURY FINDS MANLY GUILTY. DEATH SENTENCE PASSED. WANGANUI, August 13. The Court was tensely packed this morning during the final stages of the Manly trial. Hundreds were waiting outside the main door before 10 o’clock. Mr. W. J. Treadwell, counsel for accused, in his address, spoke for two and a half hours. He stressed insanity. He asked the jury not to find the accused “not guilty” of murder, but to find him insane. His Honour (Sir Michael Myers), continuing, said they might find it possible to bring in a verdict of manslaughter, but he did not think so. There would be only two possible verdicts, that the accused wasi guilty, or that he was not guilty on grounds of insanity.
The Jury retired at 12.55 p.m. with a verdict of guilty. His Honour said that after a very fair trial, in which Manly had been ably defended he had been found guilty of a crime for which there was only one penalty. Manly, when asked if he had anyth'''? to say, said in a low, husky nover at any time 1 ■ ’’T.” Donning the black ,!is Honour then passed the death sentence.—(P.A.)
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Wairarapa Age, 14 August 1930, Page 5
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