NOT IN CHARGE
PROSECUTION FAILS (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHUBCH, This Day. Holding that tho defondant had not been in charge of the car, though he was the owner, Mr. E. D. Mosley, S.M., today dismissed a charge brought against Charles Arthur Orr, aged 42, a bus proprietor of Oamaru, that ho had | been intoxicated while in charge of the vehicle. j The evidence showed that tho dei fondant and three companions came to 1 the city from tho south, and that all took turns in driving, but that a man jinmod Douglas Lawrence drove , into Christehurch. The defendant was sitting in the front seat, but on the lefthand side when the car was, seen in Manchester Street. According to the 1 police he was intoxicated. ■ The Magistrate said that he was satisfied that the defendant was intoxicated, but that he was not in charge of a mechanical1 portion of tho car.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1935, Page 11
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151NOT IN CHARGE Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1935, Page 11
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