SUPREME COURT

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 May 1936, Page 14

SUPREME COURT

VOTED TWICE. [PEB PBESB ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND, May 6. A verdict of guilty, with a recommendation that leniency should.be extended, was returned by the jury in the Supreme Court after considering the case of .Tames Francis Brady, second-hand dealer, who was alleged to have committed the offence of personification under the Electoral Act, 1927, on the day of the General Election last year. It was alleged by the Crown that the accused voted in the morning at St. Benedict’s Hall, and then went to the booth at the Town Hall and applied for a second set of voting papers. The case camo before Mr. Justice Callan. For the accused, Mr. Elwarth said that Brady was so much under the influence of liquor that he did not realise what he was doing when he applied for voting papers. Although it had been shown that accused had voted at St. Benedict’s Hall on the morning of election day, he had no recollection of having done so. He was in such a helpless state of intoxication on that day that he did not recollect either voting or being in the vicinity of the Town Hall during the afternoon. .

Accused was remanded for sentence. DEATH OF CYCLIST. PALMERSTON NORTH, May 5. The Grand Jury returned no bill in the case of Vernon Maurice Greer, who was charged with negligently driving a motor-car on the Himatang.’ highway on March 28, thereby causing the death of a cyclist, Ernest John Edie, of Orona Downs. A recommendation that a red reflector and a white rear mudguard should be made compulsory on all cycles throughout New Zealand was made by the Grand Jury. A statement was made in the depositions that the cyclist had no light, no rear reflector, and no white rear mudguard. Mr. Justice Ostler undertook to see that the recommendation is forwarded to the proper quarter.