WRONG DEFENDANT
Death of a Racehorse By Telegraph—Press Association. Hawera, July 23. An unusual occurrence—the wrong defendant being charged, and a lather being called upon to give evidence against his son—was noted in the Magistrate s Court to-day, when Mr. J. 11. .Salmon. S M dismissed an information against Lionel Hicks, who was charged with permitting two horses to be at large on a highway. One of the horses, the wellknown racer Bisox, was involved in a motor collision, and had to be destroyed. As the owner, Robert Hicks, when interviewed by the police said, he believed his son Lionel Hicks had been carting in the horse paddock, and was responsible for leaving the gate open, the police, proceeded against the son, but in Court the father said he had since found -that an employee, who had since left, had been doing the carting referred to on the day of the accident. . The charge was dismissed without evidence being called for the defence.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 256, 25 July 1930, Page 15
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163WRONG DEFENDANT Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 256, 25 July 1930, Page 15
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