UNABLE TO AGREE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 111, 15 May 1942, Page 3

UNABLE TO AGREE

SUPREME COURT JURY Wellington, May 14. A jury of 12 in the Supreme Court yesterday failed to agree on a verdict in the case of Archibald Charles Bai- ’ rington, hon. secretary of the Christian Pacifist Society, charged with | publishing a subversive statement am I alternatively attempting to publish a I subversive statement. ; The case was heard before the Chief I Justice (Sir Michael Myers/. Mr. C. i H. Weston. K.C., with him Mr. W. R. : Birks, conducted the prosecution, am the accused conducted his own defence. , The charges related to pubheatio; ■ of a typewritten and cyclostyled doc; 1 .- I ment. headed “N.Z.C.P.S., W. 38,” datj ed March 10 last, which the prosecution contended contained several sub- ! versive statements. { The jury retired at 1 p.m. and re- ! turned at 3.55 p.m.. the foreman announcing that they had been unable to come to an agreement. His Honour told the foreman that the law required that a jury must deliberate for a certain time. The jur\ returned again at 5.5 p.m., when the foreman announced that, there was m hope of an agreement. The jury were thereupon discharged. Mr. Weston formally moved for < second trial. His Honour said he was bound t-c grant the request, and fixed Monda;. next as the date for the new trial. The accused was released on bail or his personal recognisance of £5O.