FATAL NEGLIGENCE.
LORRY DRIVER FOUND GUILTY. VERDICT AT SECOND TRIAL. sPer Press Association.' INVERCARGILL, November 9. A verdict of guilty was returned by the jury at the retrial to-day of Charles Michael Hughes, who was charged with negligently driving a motor vehicle cn the main Invercar-gill-Dunedin highway at Woodlands on October 2, thereby causing the death of William George Seddon Parker. At the first trial last week the jury disagreed. The jury retired at 4.40 p.m. and. returned at 7.15 p.m. and asked the Court if it would be consistent to bring in a verdict of guilty and add a rider that there was contributory negligence on the part of the cyclist. Mr Justice Kennedy said that contributory negligence on the part of the person killed was .no defence. It was not an inconsistency to add a rider expressing the opinion that there was contributory negligence to a verdict of guilty. The jury retired, and, within a few minutes returned with a verdict of guilty. Hughes will be sentenced on Wednesday.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 26, 10 November 1936, Page 3
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