VERDICT OF GUILTY
SEQUEL TO COLLISION
MOTOR-CYCLIST'S DEATH
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, February 11. A verdict of guilty on the major: count was returned in the Supreme Court tonight by a jury in a case in which Leslie Raymond West was charged with the death of a youth while driving a motor-car in a state of intoxication. The jury left the court at 3.55 p.m., and, with the exception of a' short interval at 5.40 p.m., when it returned to make a request of the Judge, did not appear until 9.40 p.m. West was remanded until 10 a.m. tomorrow for sentence.
West was charged that on October 20, while in charge.of a motor vehicle, by an act or omission he caused the death of William Eric Johnston, a motor-cyclist, and bodily injury to Edward Noah Hayward, a pillion rider, and that through negligence he caused the death of Johnston and bodily injury to Hayward.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 7
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