MOTORIST ON TRIAL
NEGLIGENCE CHARGE PEDESTRIAN'S DEATH (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Twenty-one witnesses were called for the Crown in the trial which opened in the Supreme Court yesterday of Leonard Stewart, aged 48, pram manufacturer, Petone, charged with negligent driving, causing death and failure to stop after an accident. The charges followed an accident in Cambridge Terrace, Wellington, on the evening of November 8, when Albert Edward Boyes, aged 67, was knocked down and killed.
The evidence for the Crown was completed and the court adjourned after the accused’s counsel had addressed the jury. Counsel said the defence to be put forward was that, while the accused admitted his car had knocked down Boyes, he had been totally unaware of the accident and so had driven on. He would admit running into a stationary lorry afterwards, but the Crown’s inference that he had done so deliberately so as to give a reason for the damaged car was fantastic.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20477, 11 February 1941, Page 4
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