PLEA OF GUILTY

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 5

PLEA OF GUILTY

INTOXICATED DRIVER

FINE AND CANCELLATION

A salesman, Cyril D'Arcy Allen, aged 46, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court today, before Mr. J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M., to being intoxicated in charge of a motor-car in Taranaki Street. He was fined £20 and his licence was cancelled for six months.

Sub-Inspector D. A. McLean prosecuted, and Mr. A. J. Mazengarb appeared for the accused.

At 1.35 p.m. yesterday, said Sub-In-spector McLean, a traffic inspector on duty at the Taranaki Street and Manners Street intersection saw a car making a right-hand turn, and noticed that something was wrong. He stopped the driver, the accused, and came to the conclusion that he was under the influence of liquor. He was taken to the police station, where Dr. Shirer certified that -he was intoxicated and quite unfit to be in charge of a car. The accused had never previously been in trouble.

Mr. Mazengarb said that the accused had not previously been in trouble, although he had been driving for twelve years. He was not a drinking man. For some time he had been working day and night, and had had considerable business worries. His health had been affected to the extent that he could not sleep, and when, yesterday, he had some gin it affected him more than he realised.