THREE MONTHS’ GAOL.
CAR NEGLIGENTLY DRIVEN. DELICENSED FOR TWO YEARS. WELLINGTON, February 5. “Speaking generally, drivers under the influence of liquor who place innocent lives in peril, must expect to lose their liberty for a time,” said Mr Justice Smith, in the Supreme Court, when he sentenced Robert Hunter Service, a bank audit inspector, to three months’ imprisonment on a charge of negligently driving, thereby causing bodily injury, to which the prisoner had pleaded gualty. The accident occurred at Lower Hutt on October 26. A ear driven by prisoner collided with a car driven by Kenneth Carmichael, a freezing works hand, at Palmerston North. Carmichael was accompanied by his wife and child. They were all injured. His Honor, in imposing sentence, said that although, there was no specific second division in New Zealand prisons, he had no doubt the prisoner’s case would be properly dealt with by the gaol authorities, and that he would be kept apart from ordinary prisoners. His Honor said, he would request the Minister for Justice to arrange that that should he done. in addition to the term of imprisonment, Service had his driver’s license cancelled, and was prohibited from obtaining a new one for two years.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 98, 6 February 1936, Page 6
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