YOUNG MAN GAOLED
INTOXICATION CHARGE
(By Telegraph.—Presa Association.) AUCKLAND, March 25.
"Those who take liquor and drive must take the consequences," said Mr. F. H. Levien, S.M., when sentencing Clifford Albert John Sumich, aged 20, in the Magistrate's Court for being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car.
It was stated that this was the first time the accused had been in trouble. The Magistrate said the offence was notorious, and it was difficult enough to deal with normal drivers, without those under the influence of alcohol. The question was whether he should create a precedent and allow a young man to have a single bout of intoxication in a car and send an older man to prison. Those who took liquor and drove cars had disregard for the safety of the other fellow. It was distasteful for him even to contemplate sending a young man to gaol, but he could see no other way of dealing with that sort of offence. Sumich was sentenced to seven days in gaol. His licence was cancelled, and he was disqualified from holding another for twelve month*.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 72, 26 March 1940, Page 13
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