FATAL COLLISION
INTOXICATED DRIVER OF MOTORCAR
JI'UY RETUKNS VEKDICT OF GITJ/1Y
(PRESS AS3OCIATIO* TELEGRAM.) DUNEDIN, February 11. A verdict of guilty on 'the major count was returned in the S'ipremo Court to-night by a jury in the case in which Leslie Raymond West was charged with causing the death of a youth through driving a motor-car while in a state of intoxication. The jury left the court at 3.55 p.m. and, with the exception of a short interval at 5.40, when it returned to make a request of Mr Justice Kennedy, the jury did not appear until 9.4 D p.m. West was remanded until 10 a.m. tomorrow for sentence.
West was also charged that, on October 20, while in charge of a motor vehicle, by an act or omission he caused the death of William Eric Johnston, a motor-cyclist, and bodily injury to Edward Noah Hay ward, a pillion rider, and that through negligence he caused the death of Johnston and bodily injury to Hayward.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21705, 12 February 1936, Page 12
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