INTOXICATED MOTORIST

Evening Star, Issue 22632, 26 April 1937, Page 3

INTOXICATED MOTORIST

ERRATIC COURSE THROUfiH CITY STREET £l4 FINE. YEAR'S SUSPENSION M The defendant was driving in a very erratic manner through. Cumberland street and when he was stopped by a' -traffic (inspector was found _ to bo in an advanced, state of intoxication,” said Sergeant Boulton in the Police Court this morning when Cecil Andrew Fibhes (32), single, admitted being in a' state of intoxication while in charge of his car on-Saturday night. For the defendant, Mr 0. G. Stevens said that there was no question about the fact of Fibhes being intoxicated, but he did not admit that he was in an “ advanced ” state of intoxica tion. He was a highly nervous individual and was a chronic sufferer from asthma, his condition being accentuated by the recent bad weather He had a glass of beer before sis o’clock and took a bottle of ale back to his work in the evening. He was going home at eight o’clock at about 8 or 10 miles an hour when he was stopped. Counsel agreed that he_ was not in a fit condition to be driving a car. Fibbes was fined £lO, with medical expenses of £1 Is. and his license was suspended for 12 months. Leave was reserved for him to make an application for "the renewal of the license after the expiry of four_ months, Mr Bundle adding that it did not _ necessarily follow that such au application would be granted.

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