JUDGE WORRIED
CASE OF A YOUNG MAN WELLINGTON, May fl. “I am very worried over this case. I shall take the week-end to think over it,” said Mr. Justice Blair in the Supreme Court to-day when Henry Martin Murphy, aged 24, appeared before him for sentence. Murphy had been found guilty, with a veryatrong recommendation to mercy, of a cnarge of unlawful carnal knowledge. Mr. A. J. Mazengarh, counsel for Murphy, emphasised certain features which he claimed removed the case from tho ordinary case of its kind. Ho mentioned among other things that Murphy, from his sense of right and wrong, had gone to tho police voluntarily and had boon his own accuser. His Honour said he would remand Murphy until Monday morning, and said ho would see what he could de.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 6
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