DRIVER LOSES APPEAL

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29233, 17 June 1960, Page 11

DRIVER LOSES APPEAL

Convictions To Stand

Convictions and penalties imposed on George Vivian Sheehy in the Magistrate’s Court were upheld by Mr Justice Macarthur who gave his judgment on Sheehy’s appeal in the Supreme Court yesterday afternoon.

The case arose from the collision of a motor-vehicle driven by Sheehy with a cyclist in Carmen road late on the night of September 22. 1959. In the Magistrate’s Court Sheehy was convicted for driving without due care and attention, was fined £l5, had his driver’s licence cancelled, and was disqualified from obtaining another licence for 15 months. For failing to stop after an accident he was convicted and fined £2O; and for failing to ascertain if anyone had been injured he was convicted and discharged. Dismissing the appeal against convictions, his Honour said that the case turned on the credibility of the appellant who had claimed loss of memory as a result of a drug he had been taking for dermatitis. “The record of evidence shows to my mind that the Magistrate was right in the conclusion to which he came,” he said. Confirming the sentences, his Honour said: “The offences were of a serious type and merited severe penalties. They were proper and I do not consider them excessive.” The Court awarded £5 5s costs

against the appellant. Mr G. S. Brockett appeared for Sheehy; the Crown was represented by Mr P. T. Mahon.