RECKLESS MOTORING
IMPRISONMENT FOR MANSLAUGHTER. [Per Unwed Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, September 7. _ In sentencing J. T. Doherty to six months’ imprisonment with barf labor on a charge of manslaughter connected 1 with a fata! motor collision, Mr Justice Reed said that tho oaso was a bad one. If Doherty was an intelligent man bo must have realised long ago that ho Was temperamentally unfitted to drive a car. He was glad to’ hoar the statement by counsel for tbe defence that Doherty would never drive a car again. If tboro was to be any deterrent to .persons who drove recklessly, Imprisonment .must be imposed, and ho would regard l it as a breach of duty to do otherwise in the present case. In fixing the term of six months he took into consideration the recommendation by tho jury.
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Evening Star, Issue 18374, 7 September 1923, Page 5
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138RECKLESS MOTORING Evening Star, Issue 18374, 7 September 1923, Page 5
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