MUNGANA LEASES.
NO EVIDENCE FOR DEFENCE. COUNSEL'S CONTENTIONS. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. BRISBANE, August 11. The Chief Justice, Sir James Blair, reserved judgment on the motion by counsel for the defence for non-suits with regard to all the defendants In the Mungana leases case. The Chief Justice held that if he took the case from the Jury, and the Appellate Court then held against him, the parties would be put to the expense of a new trial. Counsel had contended that the Crown had failed to disclose a conspiracy; that Mr E. G. Theodore was not associated with “any common design;” that the monies paid by Mr W. McCormack into Mr Theodore’s bank account were not in respect of the sale of the Mungana mines. The Attoijney-General, Mr N. F. Maegroarty, in reply, argued that the Crown did not have to prove concerted acts by direct evidence. Conspiracy was a mere matter of inference, and there was irresistible inference of conspiracy.
Counsel for defendants intimated that they did not intend to call evidence for the defence. The hearing was not concluded.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18405, 12 August 1931, Page 7
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183MUNGANA LEASES. Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18405, 12 August 1931, Page 7
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