FATAL NEGLIGENCE
FARMER FOUND GUILTY SEQUEL TO ROAD SMASH (P.A.) PALMERSTON N.. Oct. 15. Found guilty of negligently driving a car and thereby causing tbo death ot Emily Elizabeth Powell and also causing actual bodily injury to Margaret Remnant on tho Foxton-Sanson highway, Mervyn Henry Davies, farmer, of To Aroha, canro before Mr Justice Smith for sentence. , It was disclosed by the judge that the accused had on threo occasions been convicted of being in a state of intoxication while in charge of a car. His Honour asked if those offences sould be disergarded in view of the fact that tho prisoner bad two pony shandies a short time before the accident. On submissions being raised by the defending counsel (Mr Ongley) the prisoner was remanded till to-morrow for sentence.
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Evening Star, Issue 24016, 15 October 1941, Page 9
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130FATAL NEGLIGENCE Evening Star, Issue 24016, 15 October 1941, Page 9
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