IN THE COURTS.
SEN TENCE AMEN DED I'Kt'OXTCA.tfteiy MOTORIST IN OWN CAK FINED £lO AND NO LICENSE FOR TEN YEARS (Press Aispri.i lion i DUNEDIN, Nov. ,7. A sentence of three weeks' imprisonment imposed on Gustav Neilson in the Police Court on Monday for being intoxicated while in charge of a, ear, was amended by Mr ,H. Bundles SIM., after a, i ehcaring, vhtY, morning. Neilson being 'fined. £lO and 1 prohibited from driving for ten years. The magistrate heard the evidence of Dr. DcLautour as to - the defendant’s disability through• -a war injury to the skull, making hiiii abnormally •sensitive to alcohol, but did not accept the doctor’s view that Neilson was incapable of forming a- judgment at th'e time lie allowed another man, also intoxicated, to drive for him. His Worship held that Neilson was not in. such a state of helplessness as to escape a charge of aiding ancl abetting an intoxicated person to drive his car.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12704, 8 November 1935, Page 2
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160IN THE COURTS. Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12704, 8 November 1935, Page 2
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