DRIVER NOT GUILTY.
JURY'S PROMPT VERDICT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Without retiring, a jury in the Supreme Court to-day returned a verdict of not guilty in a case in which Donald Nisbet, truck driver, aged 26, was charged with manslaughter. The case was a sequel to an accident at Lyall Bay on the afternoon of July 18, [when Shirley Ann Blackburn, aged five [years, lost her life when struck by a lorry driven by accused.
Mr. Justice Blair intimated that he was bound to say the Crown had not presented a case which would entitle the jury to return a verdict of guilty.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 248, 20 October 1939, Page 5
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