SEVEN DAYS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 119, 23 May 1939, Page 4

SEVEN DAYS.

CAR CONVERSION.

INTOXICATION CHARGE.

BOTH OFFENCES ADMITTED. Pleading guilty to a charge of unlawful conversion of a car, and also to hp'ing in a state of intoxication whilst in charge of the car. Kdward Winter

Rnrnsdale. boot clicker, aged 2f>, was sentenced to ii!i|iriso)inii'iit for seven days this morning hy Mr. C. R. Orr Walker. S.M., in the Police Court. That was on the intoxication charge; on the unlawful conversion charge he was admitted to probation for 12 months, ordered to pay expenses £'.i 13/, prohibited, and an order made that no driver's license be issued to him for two years, should he require one.

Senior Sergeant f'ahvell said that at t< p.m. on Saturday tlie owner of a car missed it from Victoria Street, where he had parked it. Tie wei.t to a telephone box to ring the police, and while in the box >iiw the car go past ami turn into Queen Street, where it. wa« pulled up. The owner followed, and, ilnding the accused in the car, got in and drove to the police station. Accused there got out and ran away, but was followed and apprehended*. Accused was intoxicated, and said he didn't remember anything about the car.

Mr. K. Ackins, counsel for accused, said the latter had never been in trouble before, and had had an excellent character. On Saturday, with some friends, he had some beer, and then sonic gin, and he did not remember being in the cur at all. He was a good husband nnd worker, and his employer was pre fmred to keep him on. It was a fuse where the Court might give the accused a chance.

In dealing with accused, his Worship Siiiil that, generally speaking, probation was not appropriate punishment for the appropriation of a motor e;ir. .Accused had taken the car whilst under the influence of liquor. On the intoxication charge his Worship said hn could not see why imprisonment should not be imposed, but in view of accused's previous good character the sentence would lie seven days.