TEST FOR SOBRIETY
AMUSING SCENE IN COURT
LONDON, October IS. After manv tests in London Couits to decide whether motorists are under tho influence of liquor, including the repeating of tongue-twisting, alliterative phrases, medical witnesses now generally revert to the Romberg test, under which the suspect stands with his feet together and with his eyes shut. If he sways it is accepted as proof that he has lapsed from sobriety. The whimsical Recorder at the Old Bailey (Sir Ernest Wild), who has appeared in many notable trials, has no faith in the test. He invited a medical witness to step from the witness-box to-day and try the test on himself. The doctor swayed. The jury stopped the case and acquitted the defendant, which means that magistrates will more than ever be puzzled to give just decisions in these drunkenness cases.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1933, Page 7
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