BROTHERS ARRESTED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 143, 18 June 1940, Page 8

BROTHERS ARRESTED

INTOXICATION CHARGE. driver imprisoned. Arreted following an accident 5n stokes Road, Mount Eden, last Tuesday evenm- tw° brothers, Percy Leonard UICRS (41) a painter, and Arthur inccnt Hicks (46), builder, appeared in the Police Court to-day, before Mn F. H. le n, S.M. Arthur Vincent Hicks wai «^i Cn i .v^ CVen lia - vs ' imprisonment ith hard labour for being' in a eiaXc of intoxication while in chart® of r. [motor truck, while his brother was finc.i I* l? r o)6 , trwtiu ? the arresting constable while in the execution of hi* duly. Mr. Urquliart appeared for both accused Arthur Vincent Hicks pleads! not guilty. His brother admitted th> charge of obstruction. Constable A. Hodgens sa'd he went to htokes Road, Mount Eden, shortlv aft.-r b.lo p.m. on J uue 11 and found that in taking a corner a motor Iruck had c»J lided with a telegraph pole and was stationary across the footpath. He saw Percy Leonard Ilicks, who said hibrother was in oharpe of the veliiolc. Walking along the sti-ct, witness the other accused an<» asked him ir.- £»<• . ®aid it was "Jonc~." He denied that lie was the driver of t'i - ruck and added that he lived "down here." Evidence was give:! by Dr. T. II Pettit, who examined accused at t»o l olico .Station an hour "after »V accident, that Arthur Vincent Hicks h.i ? had sufficient. alcohol to affect his ju-.1-ment ment and render him unsafe to b" i>' charge of the truck. The defence was a denial that accu.-cil was affected by liquor. Arthur Vincent Hicks admitted that he had taken >onu liquor during the afternoon, but considered that he was quite sober. Tli.vwas confirmed by his brother in evidence. r " examined Arthur Vincent Hicks two hours after th» accid:-ni. >aid Hir-kri wao quite sober. He -•crformed all the test,; witness gave him. Mr. Levien remarked that he was satisfied on the evidence that Arthur \ incent Hicks was in a state of intoxication. In addition to the sentence seven days* hard labour the magistj'at disqualified Hicks from holding a for twelve months.