SIX MONTHS’ HARD
GUILTY OF NEGLIGENT DRIVING. DELICENSED FOR FIVE YEARS. SEQUEL TO MOTOR FATALITY. (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Found guilty yesterday of negligently driving a motor-car, causing death, Kaspar Gray Webley, a building contractor, was this morning sentenced by Mr Justice Northcroft to six months imprisonment with hard labour, and he was debarred from holding a driving licence for five years. THE JUDGE’S SUMMING UP. (Special to the “ Guardian.”) CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. Kaspar Gray Webley, a. city building contractor, aged 39, was found guilty in the Supreme Court of having driven a motor car negligently along Marshland Road on February 24, thereby causing the death of Joseph Quinn. Webley was remanded for sentence. Mr Justice Northcroft, in summing up, said that the evidence of the accused’s consumption of liquor on the day of the accident had been brought by the prosecution, a hotel barman having refused him more drink because he considered lie had had enough. It was for the jury to determine whether Webley was in a fit state to drive, and it was also for the jury to say whether GO miles an hour along Marshland Road was a reasonable speed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 194, 18 May 1938, Page 6
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