DRIVER CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO HELP

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22358, 23 March 1938, Page 5

DRIVER CHARGED WITH FAILURE TO HELP

APPEAL COURT RESERVES DECISION

(mill ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.)

' WELLINGTON, March 22,

When the case the King v. Kenneth Frank Bowden, in which Bowden is charged with failure to assist a woman who was injured when jumping from his car, yias resumed in the Court of Appeal to-day, the Solicitor-General (Mr H. H. Cornish, K.C.), on behalf of the Crown, submitted: — (1) That these had been an ‘accident” within the meaning of that term as used in the statutory provision under consideration. (2) That the accident arose, either directly or indirectly, from the motor vehicle then being driven by Bowden. (3) That in these circumstances the accused was liable to be convicted on the evidence befor’e the jury at the trial, because he did not stop. (4) That there was a case to go to a jury on the question whether he failed to ascertain whether he had injured Miss Squire. (5) The accused was also liable to be convicted, or, rather, there was a matter for the jury to consider, whether he failed to render practicable assistance. Judgment was reserved.