SEVERAL CHARGES
GAOL FOR PAINTER
(By 'x'elegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, September 23
"In spite of the very ingenious defence offered by counsel, the evidence satisfies me that the accused must be convicted," said Mr. C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court when sentencing Leslie Arnold Moulder, painter, aged 38, on a charge of being intoxicated in charge of a motor-van. The accused denied the charge, in addition to another of carrying on the business of a bookmaker. He pleaded guilty to charges of using obscene language and resisting a constable. Sub-Inspector Fox said that a constable saw the accused and a companion, both staggering and obviously under the influence of liquor, get into the truck. The accused sat at the wheel and the engine was started, but the van did not move ,off, although the accused appeared to make two or three attempts to get it going. Counsel submitted that the accused was not in charge of the van. He got into it to try to. locate its defects, but he had not any intention of driving it away. On each of the charges of intoxication, obscene language, and resisting the police the accused was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, the terms to be concurrent. The charge of bookmaking was dismissed, j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 19
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213SEVERAL CHARGES Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 19
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