SENTENCE AMENDED
A DUNEDIN MOTORIST
FINE IN LIEU OF PRISON
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
The sentence of three ■weeks' imprisonment imposed on Gustave Neilson in the Police Court on Monday for being intoxicated in charge of a car was amended by Mr. H. W. Bundle, S.M., after a rehearing this morning. Neilson was fined £10 and prohibited from driving for/ten years.
The Magistrate heard the evidence of a doctor as to the defendant's'disability through a war injury to the skull making him abnormally sensitive to alcohol, but ' didn't a6cept the doctor's view that Neilson was incapable of forming judgment at the time he allowed another man, also intoxicated, to drive for him.
. His Worship held that Neilson was not in such a state of helplessness as to .escape a charge of. aiding and abetting an intoxicated perso nto drive his car.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 4
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