"NOT CRIMINALS."
IMPRISONED MOTORISTS. FORM OF PUNISHMENT. (By. Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Whether motorists convicted of manslaughter should be imprisoned with ordinary criminals was discuseed to-day at the meeting of the Howard League for Penal Reform. A remit was submitted as follows: "That the question of punishments of motorists found guilty of offences under the Motor Vehicles Act, and, in particular, of manslaughter, be reviewed." Mr. F. A. de la Mare contended that a man imprisoned for manslaughter as the result of a motor accident was not a criminal in the ordinary sense of the term, and that to put such a man among the prison population was entirely wrong. It was decided to refer the remit back to the proposers for a definite case to be stated for discussion.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 15
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