MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
SHOT IN AMUSEMENT PARLOUR VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY (By Teiegnpn — free, Association) WANGANUI, Wednesday “ This case is of some importance both for the accused and the general public," said Mr Justice Smith in summing up in the Supreme Court to-day in a charge oi manslaughter against the proprietor of an "mum ment parlour, Walter Taylor. The jury found accused not guilty. The case arose as the result of the death of a boy, Eric Charles Hawkins, who died in an amusement parlour when he was shot by a companion who pointed what he thought to be an unloaded rifle at Hawkins and pulled the trigger. The Crown alleged that the proprietor of the parlour had failed to take reasonable precautions, thereby committing the crime of manslaughter.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20951, 2 November 1939, Page 11
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