ACCIDENT CASES
JUDGE'S COMMENT
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, October 18.
"There are bills in seven criminal cases before you, and one lamentable feature of the calendar is that of these seven cases four embody charges of reckless or negligent driving causing death or serious bodily injury," remarked Mr. Justice Blair in his charge to the Grand Jury in the Supreme Court, Hamilton, today. In three of the motor accident cases, his Honour said, death resulted from the accident and serious bodily injury in the fourth case. Considering the size of the calendar, these cases constituted an undue proportion of the criminal business.
The balance of the criminal charges, continued his Honour, comprised only three cases, and none was of a grave character. Apart from the number of cases involving negligence, there was ground for congratulation in the calendar since it was entirely free from cases of violence, sexual offences, or similarly serious crimes. True bills were returned on all indictments, the accused for trial being: Charles Shaw, alleged procuring, forgery, and uttering; Clarence Desmond Lawless, alleged theft; Douglas Wright, alleged theft; Ng Hong, alleged negligent driving; Mervyn Halsey Woolven, alleged negligent driving causing death; Thomas Lewis and Joseph Neill, alleged reckless driving causing death.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1938, Page 6
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204ACCIDENT CASES Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1938, Page 6
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