SUPREME COURT
BOYS' EVIDENCE UNRELIABLE. GISBORNE, This Day. Francis James Hodges was found guilty at the Supreme Court on a charge of uttering split bank notes and possessing another split note. Ralph Hawkins was charged with committing wilful mischief by setting ■ fire to a motor car in order to defraud an insurance company. The Crown relied on the evidence of two boys to support this allegation, but tA the boys reversed the evidence they had given in the lower Court. The judge commented that the youths had been romancing, and instructed the jury to acquit the accused, which they , did.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1542, 30 August 1924, Page 4
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