FIGHTING DRUNK

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 15

FIGHTING DRUNK

AN EXCEPTIONAL CASE

. ■ „ (By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") CHEISTCBUECH, 13th June. I hardly like to give the hackneyed plea of war injuries, but this is a genuine ease," said Mr. M. J. Burns, in the Magistrate's Court, w,hen appearing on ljehalf of Victor James Flood. Flood .pleaded guilty to charges of being unlawfully on private premises, and wilfully damaging furniture. > Mr. Bums, said that Flood had been badly hurt a.t the war, and as a result any.aicohol made him fighting drunk. Last-Saturday he had gone to a hotel i instead of to a football match. When he weat to pick up his wife from a house in Hagley avenue, he was intoxicated, and went to the wrong house. He was under the impression that his wife was inthe house, and was being kept from him, He became violent, smashing two windows and the glass in a door. He had spent the week-end in gaol. ;. . The Magistrate-said that the circumstances wore' exceptional. He did not want to send the accused to prison. Ho would be convicted and discharged for being on premises unlawfully, and on tho second chargo would be admitted to probation for twelve months. The accused was ordered to make restitution, and to tako out a prohibition order. The Magistrate said that he would not suppress his name.