NOT GUILTY.
CHARGES AGAINST TAXiDKIVER. (PRESS ASSOCIATION TBLEORAII.) n WANGANUI, November 11. "Not guiliy on both counts" was the verdict the jiiry returned after a retitemfeikt of three and a half hours at the Supreme Court to-day, before Mr Justice Ostler, when Cyril Augustus McAllister, & ta&i;driyer, was charged that on AuguSt 2nd, I§3o, at Wanganiii, while in a fetate of intoxication, and %hfefi in dharge of a motor-car, fie caused th 6 death 6f Harold Grey town Rush. McAllister wds also charged that he negligently drbve a motof-car, and thfereby caused the death of Harold "GrfeytdWh itiish. The foretnaii of the jury asked if he could read a statement, so that the jury's finding would not be too brief. The stftteiiieilt Wasj " ttSgardiiig the fifst chfir|*e of intcxicatioh, the jtiry is agreed that the weight bf evidence is not sufficient to prove that accused intoxicated kt the tiiiiS of the accident, arid therefore he i# e&titled tb the benefit bf the doubt, and is therefore foiind not guilty. Regarding the aecfifie! efiSfge, the jury is agreed that the weight of circumstantial evidence is hot Sufficient t6 convict : McAllister Si negligent driving, and he ; i& entitled t6 the benefit of th& 1 and foiind not guilty."
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20083, 12 November 1930, Page 15
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