MOTORIST SENT TO PRISON
INTOXICATED IN CHARGE ' OF CAR (New Zealand Press Association) GREYMOUTH, August 11. Should his client be sent to prison he would be only the second man on the West Coast to be imprisioned for this offence, said Mr W. D. Taylor, in Greymouth Magistrate’s Court today when defending Martin Raymond Carson, an accountant, aged 30, on a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a car on Saturday night. On the West Coast it was not unusual for such offences to be met' with a substantial fine, Mr Taylor said. He added that most of the other cases of this nature—which were rare in the district—had been dealt with by justices of peace who had imposed monetary penalties. Mr H. J. Thompson. S.M., said it was no pleasant task for the Court to send a reputable citizen to prison. However reputable or criminal, an intoxicated driver constituted the same menace to other road users. The Magistrate sentenced Carson to seven days imprisonment and cancelled his driver’s licence and was prohibited from holding another for 12 months.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27426, 12 August 1954, Page 3
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