EVIDENCE WITHHELD?
CHARGE AGAINST MOTORIST. S.M.'S REMARKS AS CORONER. tßy Telegraph.—Press Association.) INVERCARGILL, Monday. A sequel to the death on September 13 of Andrew John Mcßeath, who was thrown from a baker's cart when it collided with a motor car, driven by Roy Rankin Wallace, aged 19, was heard in the Police Court to-day, when Wallace was charged with negligently driving a motor car, thereby causing the death of Mcßeath.
When accused was asked to plead his counsel said he proposed to ask that the information be dismissed, on the grounds that there was no case to answer. He said the magistrate, sitting as coroner, had expressed the opinion that there had not been enough evidence as to negligence on accused's part for him to express an opinion on that point. In order to put his Worship, as magistrate, in the same position, it would be necessary for him to have the evidence of a companion, Pickford, which for some unaccountable reason had not been brought forward by the police. There would also be other witnesses. After hearing further evidence the magistrate decided to commit accused for trial.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 262, 5 November 1929, Page 5
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