DRIVER ON TRIAL.
NEGLIGENCE CHARGE. ONEHUNGA MAN'S DEATfcjf OTJTIiINE OP EVIDENCE; -1 (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, this day. The trial of John Henry Mahood, aged 26, rabbiter, for alleged; negligent dri*. in" of a' motor truck, thereby causing the death of Ernest McCleutchen Tapp at Cambridge on the night of June 22, commenced in the Supreme Court before Mr. Justice Callan and a jury to-day. Mr. H. T. Grillie3 prosecuted for tie Crown and Mr. W. J. King defended accused, who pleaded not guilty. Outlining the evidence for the Crown, Mr. Gillies said Tapp, whose age was 41, and who was a resident of accompanied by a woman named Lydia Stokes, was walking on the edge of the bitumen on the correct side of the Hamil-ton-Cambridge highway, about a mile from Cambridge, when Mahood, who was coming from the direction of Cambridge, overtook them and knocked them over. Both were injured, Tapp succumbing some week? later. Evidence would show that three passengers in Mahood's truck were more or less in a state of intoxication, while the brakes and lights of the-truck were inefficient. It was not suggested that Mahood was intoxicated or that he drove at an excessive speed. An undesirable feature of the case was that accused did not stop after the accident to assist those whom he had struck, or report to the police. He was arrested a week later near Atiamuri. (Proceeding.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 201, 26 August 1935, Page 10
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