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CAUSING DEATH Motorist Convicted (Per Press Association;. DUNEDIN, February 11. A verdict of~guilty on the major count was returned in the Supreme Court to-night by the jury in a case in which Leslie Raymond West' was charged with causing the death of a youth while driving ,a. motoj- car in a state of intoxication. The left the court at 3.55 p.m, and, with the exception of a short interval at 5.40 p.m., .when it roturned to make a request of Mr Justice Kennedy, the jury did not appear until 9.40 p.m. West was remanded until 10 a.m. to-morrow for sentence. West w.as charged that, on October 20, while in charge of a motor vehicle, as an net' or omission, he caused the death of William Eric Johnson, motor cyclist, and bodily injury to Edward Noah Hayward, pilliou rider, and that, through negligence, he caused the death of Johnson, and bodily injury to ILiyward.
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Grey River Argus, 12 February 1936, Page 6
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