THREE YEARS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1938, Page 10

THREE YEARS.

PROBATION GRANTED.

CHARGE OF INTOXICATION

COMMENTS BY MAGISTRATE.

(T.y Telegraph.—l'rrgg Association.)

NAPIER, thi- day. Three years' probation, tlie imposition of a probation order, prohibition from obtaining a driving license fr»r is mnntha and a «m;il! fine comprised the ;>onnltv imposed by Mr. J. Miller. S.M., on Peraniko ('•nobby") Martin. who appeared in the Police Court <■'; ; :■■.;.•■! with i)eiiiL r intoxicated in charge of a mutur vehicle. T)etective-S'erj>caiit Xuftall <;<■■- ■; i!,.-..| Martin a> letup of ;i pe.uliar Mentality. He traced t!ie events a~ di- ■!i>.c.i ;,, evidence at an held at Wiiii.iwa last week into tlie d<-:itli of Miirj-'i'io Ah Sue. who <li(>d from injuries reci'ired when she fell from a truck driven bv Martin. Mr. N'uttall said it had lieon o-taV lislied tli.-iT the womnnV deeth wa« in no way due to tlie manner in whii-h had driven tlie trui-k. as tiiero was no evidence to fhow whether r-Im had fallen or jumped from the veliic!?.

Mr. C. W. Xash. who appeared for Martin, said no one felt the woman's death more keenly than the defendant, who wne her brother.

Mr. Milier remarked l, c hnd to eliminate altogether from hi- eon-qdera-tion the fact of the woman's death. Miirtiii, he r-aid, appeared to be of !i;vkwanl mentality, and while it was rare, that probation was "ranted in a ease of thie kind, he felt justified in givin" , a (priii of tliroo years under strict cmditions as a penalty to meet tlie ehanre of intoxication.

Martin was a l<=o prohibited from olitn n driving licence for IS month*, ami Mr. Miller also entered a prohibition order, to lie renewed overv twelve months, and to run for three year*. ''He i< the typo that should not take liquor," he remarked.

On a charge of driving without a licence, Martin was fined ten shillings, with costs ten eliillin-ze.