"MEDICINE” FROM BOTTLE
Perjury Charge Follow|b Wanganui, July 25. Charged with committing perjury on June 9< when he appeared before Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., on a charge of being in a state of Intoxication while in charge of a motor-car, Jerry Hohopaura reserved his defence in the Wanganui Magistrate’s Court to-day, and was committed to. the Supreme Court for trial. Senior-Sergeant McLean said he conducted the prosecution against accused, and heard him give evidence and state that he had no liquor on the day of the offence either in Wanganui or anywhere else. Also that he was perfectly sober when a motor collision took place, between Wanganui and Maxwell. He crossexamined accused, and he repeated that he had had no drink, but that he had had medicine out of a bottle that he produced. .. A number of witnesses gave evidence that' they heard Hohopaura deny having touched liquor on *July 9, and also that shen they saw him at the time of the accident, find judged him too drunk to have charge of a car.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 8
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