NOT GUILTY.
MOTOR-CYCLIST ACQUITTED OF MANSLAUGHTER. (PREB3 ASSOCIATIOH TBLIQBAM.) NAPIER, November 9. Charged with riding a motor-cycle in such a manner as to cause the death of Alfred Ernest Condliffe at Tamumu, near Waipawa, on June 10th, James Andrew Simmons appeared at the Supreme Court, Napier, to-day, before Mr Justice Macgregor. Evidence was given for the prosecution by a young woman, an eye-witness of the*accident, who was some distance away. She said that accused was on the wrong side of the road and Condliffe on his correct side when a head-on collision occurred. She found Condliffe dead beside the road, and accused was lying on the road under the machines with his leg broken. Accused in evidence said he was on his correct side and Condliffe on his wrong side, this being substantiated by motor exports, who said that by the damage to the machines they judged that the accident occurred on accused's left and not head-on.
His Honour, in summing up, strongly discredited the story of the expert witnesses for the defence, classing it aw absurd, but the jury, after a short retirement, returned a iverdict of notguilty.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19154, 10 November 1927, Page 7
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